Swedish TV producers missing after Safari

Two female television producers from Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT are missing after failing to return from a safari to the Kalahari desert in Botswana, the network said today.

Helene Astrom and Jenny Soderqvist, who are in Botswana to help transform the country’s state television to a public service broadcaster, were last heard from on Saturday when they told colleagues they were driving to the Kutse Game Reserve, a national park covering around 2,000 square miles of desert and savannahs, SVT spokeswoman Helga Baagoe said.