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