Two children in hospital after jumping castle lifts off ground at party

Two children hospitalised after jumping castle lifts off ground at birthday party Two children have been taken to hospital after a jumping castle was lifted into the air during high winds in Victoria's south-west this morning. Victoria Police said the incident took place at a children's birthday party at a home in Lower Duneed Road in Mount Duneed, near Geelong, shortly before 11am. "Two children were thrown from the jumping castle and taken to hospital by road," a spokesperson said. "A large number of other children also playing on the jumping castle at the time escaped injury." Ambulance Victoria said a mobile intensive care ambulance and advanced life support paramedics attended the scene. "Two primary-school-aged children were transported to Geelong University Hospital, a boy and a girl both with upper body injuries in stable conditions," it said in a statement. In December 2021, six children died and three others were seriously injured after a freak wind lifted a jumping castle into the air at a primary school in Devonport, Tasmania. A coronial inquest into the Hillcrest tragedy will begin later this month.