{"id":12884,"date":"2026-01-09T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12884\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:24:02","slug":"american-tourist-dies-at-victoria-falls-zambia-news-diggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12884\/","title":{"rendered":"American tourist dies at Victoria Falls \u2013 Zambia: News Diggers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-YEAR-OLD American tourist from Arizona, identified as Christopher Erick Gibbs Daniel, has drowned in the Victoria Falls. A police source in Livingstone revealed that Livingstone Police Station on January 7, received a message via WhatsApp of a missing person from Zimbabwe\u2019s Matebeleland North Police Officer-in-Charge of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Kenneth Mpofu. The source said Daniel, who was on holiday in Zimbabwe, entered Zambia on January 5, and was later reported missing by his female host Cassandra Nicholson, 37, of House No 374 Squire Cumming, Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe. \u201cIt is alleged that Daniel got on a taxi to Zambia to visit the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls. Nicholson reported Daniels missing at around 16:00 hours&#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-YEAR-OLD American tourist from Arizona, identified as Christopher Erick Gibbs Daniel, has drowned in the Victoria Falls.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-12884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}