TOURIST, FISHERMAN KILLED IN HIPPO ATTACKS

A Chinese tourist died after he was attacked by a hippo while taking pictures on the shore of Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley, just hours after a hippo killed a local fisherman in the same area, Kenya’s wildlife authority said Sunday.

“The man was bitten on the chest, and his injuries were serious and he died minutes after he was retrieved from the lake,” said Rift Valley head of criminal investigations Gideon Kibunja.

A second Chinese tourist was injured in the incident Saturday night, and received treatment in the local hospital 91 kilometres southeast of Nairobi.

The deaths brought to six the number people who have been killed by hippos around Lake Naivasha so far this year.