8 killed, 13 injured after hot-air balloon catches fire and falls in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO — A hot-air balloon caught occurrence and tumbled from the entity connected Saturday successful Brazil ’s confederate authorities of Santa Catarina, sidesplitting 8 people, firefighters said.

Footage shared by section quality outlet G1 showed billows of fume coming from the balloon successful flames arsenic it hurtled toward the crushed successful the municipality of Praia Grande.

Thirteen radical survived and were taken to hospitals, Santa Catarina’s subject occurrence brigade said, adding that 21 radical were connected committee including the pilot.

“We are successful mourning. A calamity has happened. We volition spot however it unfolds, what happened, wherefore it happened. But the important happening present is for the authorities operation to bash what it can,” Gov. Jorginho Mello said successful a video connected X.

Mello said helium has asked authorities to caput to the municipality “to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable to rescue, to help, to instrumentality to hospital, to comfortableness the families.”

Praia Grande is simply a communal destination for hot-air ballooning, a fashionable enactment successful immoderate parts of Brazil’s southbound during June festivities that observe Catholic saints specified arsenic St. John.

Last Sunday, a balloon came down successful Sao Paulo state, sidesplitting a 27-year-old pistillate and injuring 11 different people, G1 reported.