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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Dalton

Zoo owner’s wife ‘jumped into crocodile enclosure to save toddler thrown in by stranger’

A zoo owner’s wife jumped into a crocodile enclosure to save a critically injured three-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown in by a stranger, locals have said.

Cambridgeshire Police said a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after officers were called to Johnson’s of Old Hurst, in Huntingdonshire, at 1.24pm on Thursday to reports that a child had “ended up in the crocodile enclosure”.

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