Crocodile bit arm off bride-to-be. Five days later she got married anyway

Zenele Ndlovu wore white on her wedding day, from her seemingly endless veil to her snow-coloured dress, all the way down to the gauze wound tightly around what remains of her right arm.

The venue had changed, but the wedding date stayed the same.

Saturday was the big day for Ndolvu and her now-husband Jamie Fox, who wed in a hospital chapel in southwestern Zimbabwe just five days after a five-metre crocodile attacked their canoe and severed her arm with a huge bite.

Ndlovu and Fox were on an adventure tour on the expansive Zambezi River, among the longest in Africa that feeds into Victoria Falls, when a crocodile broadsided their inflated canoe.

She toppled into the river as the Nile crocodile held the canoe in its jaws, Adventure Zone tour company owner Brent Williamson said on Tuesday.

Williamson, who co-led the tour, rushed to rescue Ndlovu from the water. The crocodile bit his canoe, puncturing the pontoon and sending him into the water alongside a guide trainee.