A JOINT team of police from Zimbabwe and Zambia has reportedly retrieved the body of an American tourist believed to have slipped and fallen into the 108-metre-deep Victoria Falls gorge on Monday.
According to media reports, the recovery operation was conducted Wednesday after the body was spotted lodged between rocks at the gorge late Tuesday.
It is said staffers at a lodge where the now deceased was booked raised alarm Tuesday when the unnamed guest – an American citizen – did not return after crossing the Victoria Falls Bridge into Zambia.
A search was then launched leading to the sighting of the body trapped at the gorge. This prompted authorities to shift from a rescue mission to a recovery operation.
Police divers, secured with ropes, made the hazardous descent into the gorge and placed the body on a stretcher, which was then hauled to the surface after several hours.
Zambian police later positively identified the body as that of the missing American tourist, who has not been named.
Investigations into the tourist’s death are underway.
