Tourist killed by hippo in Kenya

A tourist has been mauled to death by a hippo in the Lake Naivasha Country Club in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

Reports say the incident happened when the Chinese woman left her room one evening to take a close-up photograph of a baby hippo grazing and she was rushed and mauled by the mother.

Wildlife officials shot the mother hippopotamus dead.

A member of the Preferred Hotel Group, Lake Naivasha Country Club is close to the capital Nairobi.