The tourism balloon carrying 21 folks went up in flames within the early hours of Saturday, crashing within the metropolis of Praia Grande
At the least eight folks have been killed and 13 injured when a sizzling air balloon they had been on caught hearth and crashed in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina.
The tourism balloon carrying 21 folks went up in flames within the early hours of Saturday, crashing within the metropolis of Praia Grande on the Atlantic coast, in accordance with Santa Catarina’s navy hearth brigade.
Footage shared by native information outlet G1 confirmed billows of smoke coming from the balloon because it plummeted dozens of metres towards the bottom.
The survivors had been transported to close by hospitals, stated firefighters.
“We’re in mourning. A tragedy has occurred. We are going to see the way it unfolds, what occurred, why it occurred. However the vital factor now’s for the state construction to do what it may possibly,” stated Jorginho Mello, governor of Santa Catarina, in a video on X.
Mello stated he had requested authorities to go to the municipality “to do as a lot as potential to rescue, to assist, to take to hospital, to consolation the households”.
Praia Grande is a standard vacation spot for hot-air ballooning, a well-liked exercise in some elements of Brazil’s south throughout June festivities that remember Catholic saints equivalent to St John, whose feast day is on June 24.
Final Sunday, a balloon got here down in Sao Paulo state, killing a 27-year-old girl and injuring 11 different folks, G1 reported.
