Gunmen shot and wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park in northern Kenya on Sunday. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila, regions and exclusive special investigative reports.
NAIROBI — Gunmen shot and wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park in northern Kenya on Sunday, a source close to her family said. The 73-year-old author of the memoir «I Dreamed of Africa» was shot in the stomach after the vehicle she was driving in was ambushed by a group of gunmen, the source said. Gallmann was first flown by helicopter to Nanyuki Hospital where she received treatment but was later transferred to another hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. A wave of violence has hit Kenya’s drought-stricken Laikipia region in recent months as armed cattle-herders searching for scarce grazing land have driven tens of thousands of cattle onto private farms and ranches from poor quality communal land.
