( CNN ) -- Kenyan police have detained a suspect in connection with the killing of a British tourist and the kidnapping of his wife , police spokesman Charles Owino told CNN Tuesday . The attack happened at a remote safari lodge on the coast , near the border with Somalia . About 12:30 a.m. Sunday , bandits attacked the couple , who were staying at Kiwayu Safari Village , a tourist resort on Kiwayu Island in Kiyunga division of Lamu west district on the coast , Kenyan police said . During the attack , David Tebbut was shot dead and his wife , Judith Tebbut , was abducted , police said . The couple had arrived at the hotel Saturday afternoon after spending a week in the Masai Mara game reserve in southwestern Kenya . They were the sole guests in the hotel , which has cloth doors . `` From what we can be able to gather , he resisted , and that 's why he was shot dead , '' Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said Sunday . `` Maybe they wanted to take the two , but he resisted and that 's why he was shot dead . '' Iteere said the motive was not known . `` We are treating it just as a bandit attack , '' he said . A travel website lists rates at the 18-cottage resort as beginning at $ 400 per night . A maritime security source aware of the situation said Sunday that Islamic militants probably took Judith Tebbut by boat toward Ras Kamboni in Somalia . From CNN 's Divina Mims .
Police say a suspect linked to the killing of a British tourist was detained . The dead man 's wife was kidnapped . Score: 6