Wildebeests cross the sand river from Serengeti National Reserve in Tanzania to Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. FILE PHOTO | POOL
Keekorok Lodge has been ordered to pay Sh23 million to the family of a Chinese tourist who was stabbed to death at the lodge in 2016.
Dong Yi, the husband of Luo Jinli, sued the management of the hotel in Maasai Mara Game Reserve for negligence after Luo was killed on August 8, 2016.
Dong was seriously injured during the incident. Evidence was that the couple was stabbed by Lee Changpin, a Chinese tour guide, allegedly over sitting space during dinner.
Read: Tour guide attacks Chinese couple in Maasai Mara
The 45-year-old woman was a security manager in Beijing and was in the company of her husband and scores of tourists.
They checked into Sun Africa Hotels which trades as Keekorok Lodge Maasai Mara on the fateful day and in the company of their tour guide identified as Bai Jiang.
The assailant is said to have demanded that they leave their table, prompting an argument before he stabbed both in the chest.
Justice Francis Gikonyo said fighting in restaurants is not unforeseeable. “The defendant did not take reasonable measures to ensure the security of the plaintiff and the deceased in the restaurant,” the judge said.
The hotel defended itself saying there was adequate security and the tourists failed to report the incident.
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