A 72-year old tourist, who was in­jured dur­ing a rob­bery at­tack while sight­see­ing around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Box­ing Day, has been re­leased from hos­pi­tal.

Sal­ly Wil­son, and her hus­band, Michael, 74, were walk­ing along the Sa­van­nah to view the Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en build­ings and oth­er at­trac­tions when they were ap­proached by a man armed with a knife.

The man cut the strap from her hand­bag and stole her be­long­ings. She was cut on the left arm in the process.

The for­eign­ers were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal by a taxi dri­ver. Michael Wil­son was un­hurt and was able to as­sist the po­lice in their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Tourism said the in­jured woman suc­cess­ful­ly un­der­went surgery at the Port- of- Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. She was ac­com­mo­dat­ed at a ho­tel in Port- of- Spain and arrange­ments are be­ing made for their re­turn to the UK.

Ac­cord­ing to the min­istry, the Wilsons chose to vis­it the Caribbean on the cruise to cel­e­brate their 50th wed­ding an­niver­sary to­day.

They were among thou­sands of cruise pas­sen­gers who ar­rived on the MSC Preziosa a few hours ear­li­er.

Min­istry of­fi­cials and oth­er stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing the British High Com­mis­sion in Port-of-Spain, have vis­it­ed Mrs Wil­son at hos­pi­tal and have been pro­vid­ing the re­quired as­sis­tance in the cir­cum­stances.

Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell has ex­pressed con­cerned about the in­ci­dent, say­ing: “Our vis­i­tors would have been look­ing for­ward to their trip on­ly to have it ru­ined by an act of vi­o­lence.”

The best in­for­ma­tion avail­able to the Min­istry of Tourism is that there has not been a sim­i­lar in­ci­dent in sev­er­al years, the min­is­ter said.

Mitchell said se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments will be re­viewed to pre­vent a re­cur­rence.

He al­so not­ed: “The TTPS has al­ways been very dili­gent in col­lab­o­rat­ing with the min­istry and oth­er stake­hold­ers to keep our vis­i­tors safe. We will con­tin­ue to work with them to en­sure the well-be­ing of our guests and to im­prove the vis­i­tor ex­pe­ri­ence.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the rob­bery are con­tin­u­ing.