An air ambulance landed in Southport’s Victoria Park to pick up the injured boy (Copyright: LIVERPOOL ECHO)

A nine-year-old boy has been injured at a festival in Southport after a gust of wind picked up a zorb ball while he was inside, it has been reported.

The incident happened at the Southport Food and Drink Festival, which is taking place in the Merseyside town’s Victoria Park.

According to witnesses describing the event to the Liverpool Echo, the boy was in an inflatable zorb ball on a pool of water when it was carried high into the air by the wind.

One told the newspaper: ‘It was quite breezy then all of the 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 and it landed right over there.’

The child is understood to have been taken to hospital by an air ambulance.

Police confirmed to Metro that a nine-year-old boy had sustained injuries following an incident at the park.

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Police confirmed a nine-year-old boy had sustained injuries.