A tourist has miraculously survived following a fall into crocodile-infested waters after the cord snapped while she was bungee jumping in Zambia.
Australian backpacker Erin Langworthy fell into the Zambezi river following the terrifying mishap, which happened as she leapt from a bridge at Victoria Falls on the country's border with Zimbabwe.
The 22-year-old told how her feet were still tied together as she fell head first into the fast-flowing rapids beneath the world's largest waterfall.
Miss Langworthy said she feared for her life but managed to survive after swimming to a nearby bank on the side of the river.
She said: 'It went black straight away and I felt like I'd been slapped all over.
'I landed with my legs tied and then had to swim to the Zimbabwe side [of the river] through the rapids,' she told Australia's Channel Nine network.
'It was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris.
'I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.'
'When I was first pulled out of the water they put me on my back and so all the water that I'd inhaled meant that I couldn't breathe, so I made them roll me onto my side.
'And that's when I started coughing out water and blood. I think it's definitely a miracle that I survived.'
A battered and bruised Miss Langworthy spent a week in hospital following the incident, which happened on New Year's Eve. Officials have since launched an investigation into what caused the terrifying accident.
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