A woman has shared how she sustained horrifying injuries after falling into a crocodile-infested lagoon on holiday.

Ivana Manzur suffered bites to her leg, foot and hand after falling into the Nichupté lagoon in Cancun, Mexico.

She sustained injuries so severe that she thought she would have to have her foot amputated. 

HOW IT HAPPENED

The 26-year-old was posing for a photo on a dock overlooking the lagoon when she slipped and fell into the water.

‘I saw it face to face when I fell into the water,’ Ivana, from Villahermosa, Mexico, said in a video posted to social media.

‘I had it in front of me and I said, “I’m going to die”. But Christ said, “No chiquita, this is not the time.”

‘I started to pray to God… I don’t remember the size of the crocodile but I don’t think it was a baby crocodile because of the wounds he left me with.

‘He tried to drown me three times but I swear to you, I had supernatural strength that I really didn’t know about.’

Manzur was visiting the city of Cancun, in Mexico with her family, and had visited a Greek restaurant with some friends.

She went outside and posed for a picture on the dock when she suddenly fell in and came face-to-face with the reptile.

She revealed how she was sure she was going to die, but wanted to fight as she ‘wanted my parents to have a body to cry for’.

‘I started hitting him and came out.’

The struggle lasted for around five minutes, leaving her in a state of total shock.