{"id":13235,"date":"2026-01-09T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:59:08","slug":"american-tourist-plunges-to-death-at-victoria-falls-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13235\/","title":{"rendered":"American tourist plunges to death at Victoria Falls gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">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.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">According to media reports, the recovery operation was conducted Wednesday after the body was spotted lodged between rocks at the gorge late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">It is said staffers at a lodge where the now deceased was booked raised alarm Tuesday when the unnamed guest \u2013 an American citizen \u2013 did not return after crossing the Victoria Falls Bridge into Zambia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsolicitors.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cb-900x80-1.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">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.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">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.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Zambian police later positively identified the body as that of the missing American tourist, who has not been named.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Investigations into the tourist\u2019s death are underway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spincity.co.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/48D90FCF-37DB-4F48-9755-75A24CEE6484-export.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A JOINT team of police from Zimbabwe and Zambia has reportedly retrieved the body of an American tourist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-13235","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\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}