After several hotels, lodges, and camps flooded, hundreds of tourists have been evacuated from Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Tourist accommodations were flooded as a river in the Maasai Mara breached its banks. The reserve in southern Kenya is a famous tourist attraction because it hosts the yearly wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania.
The Kenya Red Cross says it rescued 36 people by air and 25 more by land. The Narok County government said it had dispatched two helicopters to conduct evacuations in the vast conservation area.
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More than 170 people have perished in Kenya since the rainy season began in mid-March, triggering flooding, landslides, and infrastructural damage. The Meteorology Department has stated that further rain is predicted this week.
On Monday, a torrent burst through a congested tunnel in the Mai Mahiu district of western Kenya, destroying homes and damaging roadways. The tragedy killed 48 individuals and left more than 80 more missing.
The government has asked residents living in flood-prone areas to evacuate or be relocated as water levels in two key hydroelectric dams reach a "historic high."
