Harare
A rescue team using inflatable boats, kayaks and ropes has finally retrieved the body of a 40-year-old Harare man who plunged to his death at Victoria Falls on New Year’s day.
Photographs showing Roy Dikinya’s final moments have been widely shared on social media:
Dikinya is seen walking in flip flops along the edge of the gorge, at a place known as Danger Point, moments before slipped and died.
The tourist is reported to have slipped and fallen more than 100 metres down into the gorge on New Year’s Day. Efforts to locate the body were hampered by rain and heavy water flow in the Zambezi River.
Zimbabwe state media informed that a joint team comprising police, parks rangers and volunteers took more than 6 hours to retrieve Dikinya’s remains on Tuesday afternoon of 05 January 2021.
A South African tourist slipped and died at Victoria Falls on 2005 New Year’s Eve, the last known similar accident in the area.
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