A DOG walker had to be airlifted from a field after he fell into a rabbit hole and broke his leg.Ambulance officers were called to the field near Creeting St Mary just after 4pm yesterday.

A DOG walker had to be airlifted from a field after he fell into a rabbit hole and broke his leg.

Ambulance officers were called to the field near Creeting St Mary just after 4pm yesterday.

They found the man and decided he was too far from the road to be removed by land so called in the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

A crew aboard the Anglia One helicopter was sent to the scene.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “Anglia One were required because the patient was in the middle of a field.

“The air ambulance conveyed him to hospital.”