The tourism balloon carrying 21 individuals went up in flames within the early hours of Saturday, crashing within the metropolis of Praia Grande
Not less than eight individuals 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 individuals went up in flames within the early hours of Saturday, crashing within the metropolis of Praia Grande on the Atlantic coast, in keeping with Santa Catarina’s army 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’ll see the way it unfolds, what occurred, why it occurred. However the necessary factor now’s for the state construction to do what it could,” 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 doable 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 reminiscent of 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 individuals, G1 reported.
