An American woman and her Ugandan driver have been kidnapped from a national park in southwest Uganda, by people demanding a ransom of $500,000 for their release, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, was on a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park when her vehicle was ambushed by four gunmen on Tuesday evening, a statement from the deputy police spokesman said. Ugandan soldiers are hunting the gunmen, who abducted the woman and Wild Frontiers Safari driver Jean Paul around dusk on Tuesday. Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of the East African nation's most famous wildlife reserves, runs along the frontier with conflict-wracked regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It borders its famous Virunga national park, Africa's oldest national park.

Source: Daily Mail April 03, 2019 13:56 UTC