Imagine being beaten by a crocodile just a few days before your wedding.

A Bulawayo woman lost her arm to a crocodile just a few days before her wedding.

The woman, Zanele Ndlovu-Fox told the state owned Chronicle how she lost her arm in the Zambezi River just five days before her wedding. Zanele was in a manul boat with her husband Mr Jamie Fox.

In what perhaps was an act of defiance, the two had a wedding right inside the Mater Dei Hospital where she was recovering, in the hospital’s chapel. Zanele said, ”

“We were canoeing in the upper Zambezi using those inflated rafts. The waters were very calm, we had guides and there were about seven canoes in the water. The canoe started deflating and it all happened so fast. The crocodile bit me again and pulled me into the water. My husband was thrown out on the opposite side so the boat was between us. Jamie swam over to where I was struggling with the crocodile that was trying to pull me to the bottom of the river. He grabbed my waist and with the other hand he rained blows on the crocodile.”