A girl of two was dragged to her death by a crocodile, after it nearly ripped off her grandmother’s hand on a river bank.
Judith Makwanga, 37, fought desperately to save little Mashozi Dishala, but the croc took her.
Judith said: “I had started to bath Mashozi when the crocodile shot from nowhere and started to drag me towards the main channel.
“I wrestled with the beast and it loosened its grip on my arm but it swam towards the child and attacked her.
“I grabbed it by the tail but it was too strong and I had to let go because it was dragging both of us towards deeper water.
“And it was gone – it disappeared with the child and I started to scream.”
Judith is recovering in hospital but suffers flashbacks.
Officials are hunting the croc in the Kwando River in north east Nambia.