A man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of attempted murder after a three-year-old boy ended up in a crocodile enclosure at a zoo.<\/p>\n
Cambridgeshire Police said officers were called to Johnson’s of Old Hurst, in Huntingdonshire, at 1.24pm to “reports of an incident involving a three-year-old boy, during which he ended up in the crocodile enclosure”.<\/p>\n
“The boy has been taken to Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital (in Cambridge) with serious injuries and is critical but stable,” a force spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
They added: “Specially-trained officers are at the hospital supporting the boy\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
“A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.”<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Verity McCann said: “At this stage we are speaking to people who were at the zoo at the time of this distressing incident to understand more about the circumstances.<\/p>\n
“We do not believe the man arrested and the child are known to each other.<\/p>\n
“Officers are supporting the boy\u2019s family at hospital and our thoughts remain with them.”<\/p>\n
According to its website Johnson’s of Old Hurst is a family-run farming business that now features a butchers, a farm shop, tea room, steakhouse and zoo.<\/p>\n
The zoo is home to more than 100 animals, including lions, tigers, sloth bears, capybaras, meerkats and crocodiles.<\/p>\n
A blog post on the zoo\u2019s website says the crocodiles were initially kept to help dispose of waste meat from the butchery, but they went on to be the start of a zoo.<\/p>\n
The crocodiles are kept in a converted cattle barn, which has metal-fenced elevated walkways looking down on large pools of water surrounded by tropical vegetation.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire County Council said: “Our thoughts are with the victim and their family but as this is a live police investigation, we cannot comment any further.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of attempted murder after a three-year-old boy ended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-506487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}