Two children have been taken to hospital after they were flung from an inflatable jumping castle after it flew into the air on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It is believed the children were attending a party at a property on Lower Duneed Road in Mount Duneed southwest of Melbourne just before 11am, according to Nine.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The two children fell from the jumping castle after an abrupt gust of wind caused the inflatable to fly into the air.<\/p>\n Sign up to The Nightly’s newsletters.<\/p>\n Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reports suggest both Advanced Life Support and Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance paramedics attended the scene, and the children were rushed to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n \u201cTwo primary school aged children have been transported to Geelong University Hospital by road ambulance with upper body injuries in a stable condition,\u201d an Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said.<\/p>\n There were multiple other children on the jumping castle at the time of the incident, who managed to escape injury.<\/p>\n The incident comes almost five years after six children were killed after the jumping castle they were playing on lifted into the air at Hillcrest Primary School in Tasmania.<\/p>\n The children fell from a height of 10 metres in the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children have been taken to hospital after they were flung from an inflatable jumping castle after it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":["post-880614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}