A COMBINED team of Livingstone Fire Brigades as well as Zambia Police Service and Bundu Adventurer yesterday retrieved alive a 45 year old Chinese national who fell into Victoria Falls George near the knife bridge as he was taking pictures of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
Both Southern Province Commissioner of Police Charity Katanga and Livingstone City Council Public Relations Manager Emmanuel Sikanyika confirmed the development in separate interviews.
Ms Katanga said Wang ShunXue, a Chinese national aged 45, was retrieved alive after he fell into the Victoria Falls Gorge near the knife bridge as he was taking pictures in reverse direction away from the knife bridge.
She said ShunXue, who was lodged at Zambezi Sun Hotel in room 3534, was retrieved around 09:30 hours with no serious injuries and he was taken to the same Hotel’s clinic for medical checkup.
And Mr Sikanyika said officers from the Livingstone Fire Brigades officers received a call yesterday (Monday) around 08:23 hours that a Chinese national fell into Victoria Falls and rushed to the scene to rescue him.
Mr Sikanyika said Fire Brigades officers worked together with State Police and Bundu Adventure, a company which conducts Bungee Jumping activities at the bridge, to rescue the Chinese national.
“From what they saw, the victim sustained some bruises and he was rushed for medical check-up and treatment.
The Chinese national did not get to the surface of the falls as he was rescued at the edges of the Falls cliff,” Mr Sikanyika said.
He urged tourists and other visitors to the Victoria Falls to follow guidelines and markings at the site saying they should not be overexcited when viewing one of the natural wonders of the world.
Meanwhile, a Times of Zambia crew which rushed to Victoria Falls yesterday only witnessed Mr ShunXue as he was walking out of the Victoria Falls in the company of Chinese nationals and other officials.
Mr Shunxue had bruises on his hands and he could not withstand an interview as he was still in a state of shock.
Well done protect these investors twapapata
LT needs to be rescued too from their misreporting, misrepresentation, innumerable typos and generally misleading readers and bloggers….. etc
Please do a better job….twanaka
Chinese people and their Fotos!
Chinese people are very nice
Thanks
That is Mushota who has bon.ked every nationality speaking from worldwide experience of se.xual encounters!
Lusaka Times, puleez. It’s Knife Edge Bridge. And that bridge in the picture is the main road/rail bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe – not your ‘Knife Bridge’. You’re embarrassing.
we know you’ve been to Livingstone. so stop yapping
You’re right dear. The Knife Edge Bridge is narrow and made of steel panels for walking and not tarmac. Lusaka Times is indeed misleading bloggers.
was wondering too lol
Not to worry!! The people WRITING THESE STORIES HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN BEYOND THE Kafue Road Bridge – they have just heard about Vic Falls – nothing they have described above, indicates to you where this character fell off & which point he was retrieved from ! We just have to wait for the guy to write his memoirs in Chinese then probably wait for another century for someone else to translate it for us!! Viva Zed Education!!
So,you can also be rescued dear?
NI victoria fall george or victoria falls gorge, teshina lyamuntu ili ati george. ngamwina afulika ngalifwa pantu ifwe twalifininina.
So,you can also be rescued dead?Just asking
hahahaha now you got me also wondering! But if you are dead how can it be RESCUE!
I thought Sata said the Chinese were smarter? Our under appreciated fellow zambians won’t fall like that they’re just too smart.
It is good to read a positive response from our men in uniform, job well done.
“Her urged….”, really? Come on now, get serious LT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very Lucky Idiot. he could have been dining with lucifer by now. knowing that these tumachocholi are not beleivers.
Very Lucky Iddiot. he could have been dining with lucifer by now. knowing that these tumachocholi are not beleivers.
THEY SHUD HAVE LET HIM PERISH, THESE TUMA CROOKS
thats not the knife bridge naimwe ba LT mwilabepa ubufi!
the only problem with this tumachoncholi is that tey like free things and 2 much ifikansa think tey are clever and they know everything.foolish chines u come for the roads and then u think u can tour the falls y did it u die?
Soory my friend. Chinese people are very good to their visiters right in China. We can’t compare. Get to China one day.
I meant to write ‘sorry.’
@VOLTRON,you have made me laugh “ati twalifinina”. Job well done guys
(Victoria Falls George) near the knife bridge . Ati George. Awe ba LT mulandepula.KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKe
Lusaka Times says:a 45 year old Chinese national who fell into Victoria Falls George.
LT its not Victoria Falls GEORGE but GORGE.
Please improve you are embarassing us.
Utu nato twachimpwena. They are now every where tulepwenekafye.
Zambia should do something about protecting the areas around the falls. The timber barriers may not be enough and is not in every place along the falls. such kind of incidences might give a wrong picture about the zambian side of the falls.
iwe naiwe – it is nature at its best!! Nga na ka pweneka, it becomes survival of the fittest – wamona – kaliba fit aka ka choncholi!!
Sorry your picture is outdated and wrongly labelled.The falls are currently not that high.That by the way is not the knife edge bridge but the zambia zimbabwe bridge.
WRONG!
That is not the Knife bridge LT. Please correct the caption.
Thank God takafwile . Could have left a Chinese chibanda.