Police are hunting a suspected attacker who is at large after a Halloween “demonic clown” was stabbed with a needle at an immersive “ultimate scare-fest” attraction.
The Zip World Ffear Fforest was temporarily closed on Monday evening so police could investigate an alleged assault of a member of staff who was dressed as one of the horrifying clowns.
The attraction, in Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, North Wales, features a number of rides filled with staff dressed as the clowns to terrifying visitors.
But, it is understood that one of them was injured with a medical needle on Monday.
Site owner Zip World moved to quash rumours of a knife attack but confirmed the victim had come into contact with a “potentially dangerous medical device”.
North Wales Police has said that the device was a needle. An initial statement released by police on Tuesday said: “We were called to a report of an assault at Zip World on the evening …