The zoo where a three-year-old boy was seriously injured after he was thrown into a crocodile enclosure has thanked staff, paramedics and visitors whose ‘calm and immediate actions made a real difference’.
Johnsons of Old Hurst, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said everyone involved had acted with ‘incredible speed and determination’.
Emergency services raced to the site on June 18 following reports that a man had hurled the toddler into the crocodile pen.
The boy was rescued from the pit by staff members, including the zoo’s owners Andy and Tracey Johnson, who are said to have leapt in.
He received treatment at the scene before being
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