French Hostage Tell Story of His Escape From Katsina.

Mr. Francis Collomp. Pix Courtesy of bbc.com

Report by BBC.com documented how one French engineer kidnapped by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria managed to escape two weeks ago. Mr. Francis Collomp, 63, was said to have studied the daily routine of his captors, “and locked one in a bathroom as he was preparing to pray.

He explained that, “he then flagged down a motorcycle taxi and asked the driver to take him to a police station. Mr. Collomp was seized by the Ansaru group while working on a power project in the northern part of Nigeria.”. He was kidnapped on 19 December 2012 by group of armed kidnappers “who attacked the residence of his employer, Vergnet, in Katsina state.