A three-year-old boy has been left in a critical condition after being thrown into a crocodile enclosure at a zoo in Cambridgeshire.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Cambridgeshire Constabulary do not believe the two ‘are known to each other’.
Officers scrambled to Johnsons of Old Hurst in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, just before 1.30pm after the toddler was thrown into the enclosure, the force said.
The boy was rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital with serious injuries and is in a ‘critical but stable’ condition.
A heavy police presence was visible at the zoo after the ‘hugely traumatic’ incident. Specially trained officers
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