Residents of an impoverished Nigerian village have held a parade to honour a British missionary who died after being kidnapped from the eye clinic he had set up in their neighbourhood.

Dressed in black, hundreds of villagers from Enokhora, a remote community in Nigeria's southern Delta region, turned out to mourn the death of Surrey optician Ian Squire, 57, who was kidnapped by a criminal gang last month.

Three other British missionaries who were held with him were freed last week, but Mr Squire is understood to have died after being unable to access medication for an asthma condition.

His death has brought both sadness and anger among the local community, who now face the closure of the clinic that the missionaries ran, one of the few health facilities in the area.

One placard held up by the demonstrators read: "Ian, you live, you never die, because we cherish you in our hearts."

Local TV news reports also showed footage of the missionaries' clinic - now padlocked - and their nearby living quarters, where the locks on the doors had been smashed open when the kidnappers struck just after midnight on October 13.