Tearful witnesses have described seeing a three-year-old boy being tossed into a crocodile pit at a British zoo before the owner’s ‘heroic’ wife leapt in to rescue him.
Tracey Johnson apparently pulled the child to safety. He remains in a critical condition after suffering a broken arm and pelvis in the incident in Cambridgeshire yesterday.
A 30-year-old man from Norfolk, believed to be a stranger to the victim, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is in custody.
The attacker was a ‘mentally disabled’ man who was there with a carer, according to some reports.
The boy had been looking at the reptiles
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