Ten people, including six children, have been injured after a boat speared into a tree on the riverbank of the Fitzroy River at Rockhampton in Australia at speed.
Paramedics were called to the banks of the river at the northern suburb of Wandal on Wednesday afternoon.
Nine people were in the boat when it was propelled towards the riverbank, with another bystander injured in the crash.
"From early information I gather the vessel struck something in the water which speared them into a tree on the edge of the bank," Queensland Ambulance Service senior operations supervisor Brad Miers said.
A critical care paramedic and a doctor had to be winched from a rescue helicopter to the boat.
A woman in her 60s was airlifted to hospital with suspected chest, facial and spinal injuries.
Two of the children were reporting neck and back injuries, according to emergency services.
The other two adults and six children were taken to Rockhampton Hospital with various injuries.
