Police in eastern England on overnight arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after a 3-year-old boy ended up in a crocodile enclosure at a zoo near the English university city of Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Cambridgeshire Police said officers were called early afternoon to Johnsons Zoo in Old Hurst following “reports of an incident involving a 3-year-old boy, during which he ended up in the crocodile enclosure”.<\/p>\n
The boy was taken to Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital in Cambridge about 40km away. Police said he was in critical but stable condition, and that a man from the nearby county of Norfolk was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n
“We do not believe the man arrested and the child are known to each other,” said Detective Inspector Verity McCann.<\/p>\n
According to its website, the zoo is home to more than 100 animals, including lions, tigers, sloth bears, capybaras, meerkats and crocodiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in eastern England on overnight arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after a 3-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,67,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-484358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}