He said the tourist and his driver were driven along the border points according telephone mast picked when they called close associates of the victims in demand for a ransom of USA $500,000, equivalent to Shs1.85 billion.
"The kidnapping happened near Katoke Gate in the Queen Elizabeth National Park".
"The priority at this point is to locate them, rescue and bring them back to safety", Opondo said.
Police were combing a wildlife park in Uganda on Thursday as they searched for an American tourist who was kidnapped at gunpoint.
An American woman was kidnapped Tuesday evening in Uganda and is now being held for a $500,000 ransom.
Kimberly Sue Endicott was identified by friends as the Costa Mesa woman who was taken prisoner by four men wearing military uniforms and reportedly armed with assault rifles while visiting Queen Elizabeth National Park. Katende said this incident is "the first time I'm hearing" of a tourist kidnapping.
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Also, the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 has seldom been used and most prosecution lawyers have little working knowledge of it. Mr Tarrant entered the two mosques armed with high-powered weapons and streamed the attacks via Facebook live.
The U.S. embassy in Kampala had no extra information to offer.
Bashir Hangi, a spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, told Reuters that tourists in the park are not supposed to partake in game drives without an armed ranger but that this group "went out on their own without a guard".
"From their camp in the park, they just got into a vehicle and went out".
In 1999, an American couple, four Britons and two New Zealanders were killed along with four Ugandan guides when ambushed by gunmen in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Earlier there were reports linking kidnappers to the rebel group of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) operating with in the Eastern part of Congo.
Bwindi begins about 20 km (12 miles) south of Queen Elizabeth National Park, where tourists flock to see lions, hippos, crocodiles, chimpanzees and other African wildlife in an area of lakes, savannah, forests and swamps. Tourism is Uganda's biggest earner of foreign currency, and authorities estimate the industry's earnings jumped by about a fifth previous year to $1.7 billion after a visit by musician and fashion designer Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West.
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