A joint team of Uganda’s security forces on Sunday successfully rescued kidnapped American tourist and tour guide that had been missing for a week.
Kimberly Sue Endecott, 35 and Jean Paul Mirenge were kidnapped on gun point on 2nd April in a Ugandan wilderness park and held captive by armed captors from a group of four tourists while on an evening game drive between 5pm and 6pm at Queen Elizabeth national park.
The two were on Sunday 7th April recovered at Ishasha in western Uganda near the park’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo unharmed, in good health and are in the safe hands of the joint security team.
The Uganda government had formerly closed sections of the border with DRC to block the abductors from fleeing the country.
A ransom was paid by touring company Wild Frontiers to free Endicott and her tour guide.
It is suspected the abductors were forced to abandon the rescue scene due to the presence and intense pressure from security forces.
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