{"id":648516,"date":"2026-06-20T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:57:08","slug":"crocodile-attack-on-boy-at-cambridgeshire-zoo-what-do-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648516\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile attack on boy at Cambridgeshire zoo: What do we know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zoo at Johnsons of Old Hurst is in the Cambridgeshire village of Old Hurst, north of Huntingdon, and has more than 100 animals including lions and tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fully licensed site includes a farm, cafe and butcher&#8217;s shop, which opened 20 years ago, while its crocodile house was built in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors can see Nile crocodiles, broad-snouted caiman and American alligators, which are kept in a converted barn with metal-fenced, elevated walkways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mike Annicelli, 52, lives near the zoo and said the crocodiles were about 15ft (4.5m) below the &#8220;raised platform&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman who visited on Thursday said the crocodile enclosure included &#8220;quite high fences&#8221; and said there was &#8220;steel mesh fencing&#8221; all around the viewing platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the crocodiles appeared calm and largely motionless during her visit, about 10 minutes before the incident happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The zoo at Johnsons of Old Hurst is in the Cambridgeshire village of Old Hurst, north of Huntingdon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-648516","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}