Elephant kills US tourist and daughter in Kenya

NAIROBI, Jan 6

An elephant killed a US tourist and her one-year-old daughter near Mount Kenya during a holiday in the east African country, police sources said on Wednesday.

Few other details were immediately available, but the police sources said the pair were with a guide on Tuesday when the elephant charged at them from behind and trampled them to death. Four other people in the walking group escaped unhurt.

Conflict between wildlife and humans has escalated in Kenya in recent years, with increasing cases of elephants destroying villagers' harvests in areas near the country's national parks.

-Reuters