Nine-year-old inside transparent ball as ‘freak gust of wind’ carries it over trees before landing on wheelie bin
A nine-year-old boy has been seriously injured after the inflatable zorb ball he was playing in was carried so high into the air by “a freak gust of wind” that eyewitnesses described it gliding over some trees.
It landed nearby shortly afterwards. The boy sustained significant injuries and was taken to hospital from Victoria Park by air ambulance.: “It was quite breezy then all of a sudden there was a gust of wind. It [the inflatable ball] went over the trees and we thought it was a balloon at first before we realised it was one of the inflatables with a child inside.”
They added: “Onlookers rushed over to help, the PA put an announcement out for security and St Johns [Ambulance] to attend. They were on the scene within a minute or so. They were brilliant.” Joanne Murray, who was at the festival with her husband, said: “I can’t believe I’ve just witnessed that, I witnessed it with my own eyes, there was a kid in that ball.”
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