Tourists attacked in Kenya park

NAIROBI – Five men armed with guns and machetes ambushed and robbed nine tourists returning from an evening game drive in Kenya’s world famous Maasai Mara game reserve, police said yesterday.

One of them was injured with a machete cut. The tourists – from the United States, South Africa and Japan – were returning to their resorts at the park in southwestern Kenya when they were attacked on Monday evening.”They said their vehicle was ambushed from a game drive …by five gunmen,” Daniel Muleli, a chief inspector at the Tourist Police Unit, told Reuters.The assailants took cameras and money from the tourists and their drivers.”One of the tourists was cut on his thumb with a simi (machete),” Muleli added.Kenya Tourism Board spokeswoman Ann Kanini said the tourists comprised two Americans, a South African couple and five Japanese.She said the Japanese man struck by the machete had been flown to hospital in Nairobi.-Nampa-ReutersThe tourists – from the United States, South Africa and Japan – were returning to their resorts at the park in southwestern Kenya when they were attacked on Monday evening.”They said their vehicle was ambushed from a game drive …by five gunmen,” Daniel Muleli, a chief inspector at the Tourist Police Unit, told Reuters.The assailants took cameras and money from the tourists and their drivers.”One of the tourists was cut on his thumb with a simi (machete),” Muleli added.Kenya Tourism Board spokeswoman Ann Kanini said the tourists comprised two Americans, a South African couple and five Japanese.She said the Japanese man struck by the machete had been flown to hospital in Nairobi. -Nampa-Reuters