Crocodiles kill tourist in Zimbabwe

Crocodiles in Zimbabwe savaged a 90-year-old tourist to death and left another traveller critically wounded after attacking their rubber dinghy, the national parks service said Friday.The Zimbabwean duo was part of a group participating in a New Year's Eve picnic on Sunday in the Matopos National Park, 35 kilometres from Bulawayo in the country's south."John Bowman and Rosemary Mitchell were attacked while paddling in the crocodile-infested Mpopoma Dam," said Tinashe Farawo of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.Bowman subsequently succumbed to his injuries."It is unfortunate that they were using air-pumped boats, which are not permissible," added Farawo. Last year. a South African tourist, Scott Van Zyl, 44, was killed by crocodiles in the Limpopo river during a hunting trip.