Cape Town: The bride who walked down the aisle five days after her arm was ripped off by a crocodile has described how her husband-to-be repeatedly punched the 2.5-metre predator to save her.

Zanele Ndlovu, 25, and Jamie Fox, 27, her British husband, said it was a "miracle" she survived the mauling near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe on April 30.

Zanele Ndlovu walks down the aisle on her wedding day at a hospital Chapel in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit:AP

After days of hunting the crocodile, national park rangers found it sunbathing and shot it dead, fearing it would kill tourists, having had a taste for human flesh.

With the bride-to-be's arm in the crocodile's mouth, Mr Fox, from Orpington, Kent, used his fists in an attempt to loosen the animal's grip.