/ 11 September 2000

HONEYMOONERS FROM NEW YORK ROBBED

A HONEYMOON couple from New York has been robbed of their car and belongings by an armed gang as they left the Kruger National Park at the weekend. Scott Newman, 29, and his wife Lesley, 28, were driving on a dirt road outside the country’s largest game park when they were overtaken by a truck and forced off the road. They were held up by six armed men, who took their car, luggage, money, cameras and passports. ”We only have the clothes on our backs left,” Newman said. The couple cut their honeymoon short and will return to New York immediately. – Reuters