Monday, May 25, 2026 - Security was tightened in South Africa’s Kruger National Park nature reserve after two tourists were found killed there, authorities said on Sunday.
The two South African victims, a 71-year-old man and a woman
whose age was not disclosed, failed to return to their lodge on Wednesday
evening, prompting a search operation.
Other tourists eventually found them in a river on Friday
afternoon. Police said the man had stab wounds and the woman’s body was
bruised. Their vehicle was missing.
SANParks said it was “deploying additional monitoring and
ranger resources in specific areas of concern” in response.
It added that it was “enhancing technology systems to
strengthen surveillance and early warning capabilities”.
It said it was the first time in the park’s 100-year history
that visitors had been killed there.
Kruger Park, in the north-east of the country, is South
Africa’s biggest national park, covering 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square
miles). It shares more than 370 kilometres of border with Zimbabwe and
Mozambique.
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