{"id":692024,"date":"2026-05-25T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:30:13","slug":"tourists-killed-in-south-africa-national-park-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists killed in South Africa national park: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 5:30PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 1:55PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Security was tightened in South Africa\u2019s Kruger National Park nature reserve after two tourists were found killed there, authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other tourists eventually found them in a river on Friday afternoon. Police said the man had stab wounds and the woman\u2019s body was bruised. Their vehicle was missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SANParks said it was \u201cdeploying additional monitoring and ranger resources in specific areas of concern\u201d in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It added that it was \u201cenhancing technology systems to strengthen surveillance and early warning capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It said it was the first time in the park\u2019s 100-year history that visitors had been killed there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kruger Park, in the north-east of the country, is South Africa\u2019s biggest national park, covering 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles). It shares more than 370 kilometres of border with Zimbabwe and Mozambique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 5:30PM EDT Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 1:55PM EDT JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Security was tightened in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-692024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}