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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Three-year-old injured in UK crocodile enclosure faces ‘long rehabilitation’

A blurred police officer by a police car parked outside the Johnsons of Old Hurst farm shop
Police at Johnson's of Old Hurst in Huntingdonshire after a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the three-year-old boy ended up in the crocodile enclosure. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

A three-year-old boy left seriously injured after being allegedly thrown into a crocodile enclosure has undergone five surgeries and faces a long “rehabilitation journey”.

His family, who provided the update, also thanked donors who had raised more than £25,000. His parents said they had been “living at the hospital” since the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst farm and zoo, in Cambridgeshire, on 18 June.

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