'I fully accepted the fact that I was going to lose my foot': UK teen survives croc attack in Zambia

A British teenager who was badly injured when a crocodile bit her leg and tried to drag her underwater in Livingstone, Zambia, has said she was "very lucky" to have survived the attack.

In her first interview after the attack, Ms Osborn-Smith said she had "accepted" that she might lose her foot after being taken to hospital and was "so relieved" when she woke up to find that doctors had been able to save it. According to British media, the teenager from Hampshire has been on a gap year visiting Zambia, where her grandmother owns a farm.

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