An haunting photo shows a tourist climbing the edge of Victoria’s waterfalls in Zimbabwe – just moments before he dives more than 50 meters to his death, according to local media.
Roy George Tinashe Dikinya, 40, was taking turns with his family to take photos of the top of the huge waterfall when it fell over the edge, witnesses for Zimbabwe Day said.
“We were alerted to the woman’s scream and she told us she had slipped and fallen,” said one in Dikinya’s newspaper, who was wearing sandals and clutching several things in his left hand in the photo.
“Because of the showers and fog, we couldn’t follow him after that,” the witness said.
Rescuers from Zimbabwe’s National Wildlife Authority found body parts trapped at the bottom of the gorge, which is at least 350 meters high, the Chronicle said.
The body parts “are caught between the stones”, the spokesperson of the authority, Tinashe Farawo, told the newspaper.
“We have not been able to identify him positively because of the location where the body is caught, but we are sure that it is his body,” he said.
“Right now we are in communication with other security experts, including the military, to try to find ways to recover the body,” he said, with only one option of trying to use a military helicopter.
Government Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu sent his “sincere condolences” to the family of the tourist in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, more than 400 miles from falls, according to The Herald.
“This is a rare, tragic and unfortunate incident that will be witnessed at the powerful Victoria Falls,” Ndlovu said, while promising “all necessary precautions will be taken to prevent a recurrence of such an unfortunate incident.”
It’s just the latest tragedy involving people taking pictures of dangerous places. Just a few weeks ago, a Brazilian man died after falling from a waterfall taking a selfie.