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Two children injured in Worcestershire garden wall collapse Storm Imogen: Children badly hurt in garden wall fall
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Two young children were injured after a garden wall collapsed in Worcestershire. Two young children were badly injured when Storm Imogen brought down a garden wall on top of them as they walked to school, the fire service said.
A five-year-old and seven-year-old sustained "serious" leg injuries, with the younger child also suffering head injuries. The four-year-old boy and girl, seven, sustained "serious" leg injuries, with the boy also suffering head injuries.
The children - a boy and girl - were pulled from the rubble and flown to hospital by air ambulance. The youngsters were being walked to school by their mother in the village of Bretforton, near Evesham in Worcestershire, when it happened.
Emergency services were called to Bretforton, near Evesham, just before 09:00 GMT. The pair were pulled from the rubble and flown to hospital by air ambulance.
See more on this and other stories from Worcestershire Station commander Steve Fox, of Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, said: "I would suggest high winds we've experienced would have contributed to the wall collapse."
Station Commander Steve Fox, of Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, tweeted the children were initially treated at the scene while crews "carried out further searches of rubble pile". The children, believed to be walking ahead of their mother, were struck by a large section of the wall, estimated to be 10ft (3m) high. "Concerns remain" over its safety, Worcestershire County Council has said.
No further casualties were found. See more on this and other Worcestershire stories
Worcestershire County Council said the B4035 was temporarily closed by the operation. Emergency services were called to the village just before 09:00 GMT.
It has since reopened, but the authority says "concerns remain" over the wall's safety. The children were initially treated at the scene while crews carried out further searches of the rubble, but no further casualties were found.
While the wall is privately owned, Worcestershire County Council is carrying out structural reviews of other walls nearby.
The rescue operation temporarily closed the B4035.