13 August 2018
A Taiwanese tourist has died
after being bitten in the chest by a hippo he was trying to photograph in
Kenya.
Chang Ming Chuang, 66, was
tracking the animal at a wildlife resort on Lake Naivasha, 90km (56 miles) north-west
of the capital, Nairobi.
A second tourist, also from
Taiwan, was injured. Wildlife officials later shot dead the hippo.
High water levels have seen
hippos - the world's deadliest large land mammal - stray on to resorts for
pasture.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)
initially identified the two tourists as Chinese but Taiwan's foreign ministry
later confirmed they were Taiwanese nationals.
Kenya has no formal ties with
Taiwan and recognises China's claims over the island.
Witnesses said the two had come
too close to the animal near the Sopa hotel. The bitten man was rushed to
hospital bleeding profusely but later died.
The second tourist, named as Wu
Peng Te, was treated for minor bruising at Naivasha District Hospital.
"Our officers tracked and
shot the animal after the incident," said KWS warden Nelson Cheruiyot.
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