Married tourists found stabbed to death in crocodile-infested river

A retired married couple were stabbed to death and dumped in a crocodile-infested river in a South African national park – with cops suspecting they may have been slaughtered for interrupting poachers.

Ernst Marais, 71, and his wife Dina, 73, were found with multiple stab wounds and their hands bound behind their backs early Friday in the Limpopo River within the Kruger National Park.

Their bodies were spotted by a group of horrified tourists who were there to watch a herd of elephants cross the 7,579 square-mile reserve.

The slain couple had trekked more than 1,100 miles from their Mossel Bay retirement village to spend a week at the famous park. There was already a search after they were reported missing