2 tourists killed in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, police say

Police said the man had stab wounds and the woman’s body was bruised. The South African couple’s car was missing.

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 car was missing.

South Africa National Parks 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.