According to the Kenya Red Cross, scores of tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve after several hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains continue to batter the East African nation.

Early on Wednesday, tourist accommodation facilities were submerged after a river within the Maasai Mara broke its banks.

The reserve, in Kenya’s southwest, is a popular tourist destination due to the annual wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania.

The Kenya Red Cross reported that it rescued 36 people by air and another 25 by land.

Officials with the Narok County government said it had deployed two helicopters to carry out evacuations in the vast conservation area.

Over 170 people have died across Kenya since mid-March when the rainy season began.