The parents of a boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure could face prosecution after a male ape was killed in order to protect the child.

A special zoo response team shot and killed Harambe after he grabbed the four-year-old at Cincinnati Zoo, in the United States, and dragged him around for ten minutes.

The unnamed child was released from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on Saturday night, hours after the 15ft fall.

His family said in a statement yesterday the boy was home and doing fine.

But police said his parents could still be indicted by prosecutors. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Zoo officials said the four-year-old climbed through a barrier at the Gorilla World exhibit and dropped 15 feet into the moat.

Two female gorillas complied with calls from zoo staff to leave the exhibit, but Harambe stayed.

Witness Kim O’Connor said she heard the boy say he wanted to get in the water with the gorillas.

She said the boy’s mother was with several other young children.

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courtesy of METRO

by Jimmy Nsubuga

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