PARIS (AP) A 63-year-old French engineer who escaped from his captors in northern Nigeria after 11 months as a hostage has returned home to France.
Francis Collomp was welcomed by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on the tarmac at Villacoublay military airport before dawn Monday, a day after he escaped by motorcycle in the northern Nigeria state of Kaduna.
French media said Collomp who reportedly had triple-bypass surgery years ago was undergoing a medical exam in Paris.
Some 30 men stormed Collomp's home on Dec. 19, 2012, abducting him and killing a neighbor and a security guard. Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru claimed responsibility.
Boko Haram, a Nigerian extremist group, claimed responsibility for abducting a French priest last week in Cameroon and taking him to Nigeria.
