/ 8 March 1999

PARK CLOSED AFTER TOURIST MURDERS

THE Ugandan government has closed Bwindi National Park following the killing of eight foreign tourists by Hutu rebels last week. The Ugandan daily newspaper New Vision said the park will be off limits to tourists for one month. The Ugandan army said on Saturday it had killed ten Rwandan Interahamwe rebels inside the Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing to 25 the number killed since the tourists were abducted and slaughtered last week. Four Britons, two Americans, a New Zealander and a Swiss were killed after being abducted in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest gorilla park.