A hot air balloon accident in Brazil kills at least 8 after the fire paraded in mid-volume

A hot air balloon carrying 21 people in Brazil caught fire on Saturday morning and crashed, killing at least eight people, said the military brigade of Santa Catarina.

The accident occurred in Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil, after the fire started in the basket, forcing the pilot to try to land, officials said.

The video shared on social networks shows the black smoke which escapes on the deflated ball while it rushed to the ground in a wooded area near the city of Praia Grande, which is popular for the hot air ball.

The 13 survivors, including the pilot, were taken to hospitals with unknown injuries.

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A hot air balloon carrying 21 people in Brazil caught fire on Saturday morning and crashed, killing at least eight people, said the military brigade of Santa Catarina. (CBMSC / Brazil / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

The survivors managed to live by jumping from the ball at the start of the fire, officials said.

The balloon first started back once again once some passengers had jumped.

“These people ended up dying – four charred and four others jumped from the ball when he fell,” said Lieutenant -Colonel Zevir Cipriano Jr.

“We are in mourning,” said the governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, in a video on X. “A tragedy has happened. We will see how it takes place, what happened, why it happened. But the important thing now is that the structure of the state does what it can.”

He added that he had asked the authorities “to do as much as possible” to help the victims and their families.

Three of the victims died, kissed, said the Civil Police chief of Santa Catarina, Gabriel Uss, on social networks.

“It hurts the soul,” he said.

Emergency services operate in the region where a hot air ball has crashed, leaving at least eight dead in Santa Catarina, Brazil on Saturday. (CBMSC / Brazil / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Cost of $ 100 per person, the journey should last 45 minutes and reach 3,280 feet. It is not clear to what height the ball was the height when it started to fall.

“Despite all the necessary precautions and the efforts of our pilot – which has vast experience and has followed all the recommended procedures to try to save everyone aboard the ball – we suffer from the pain caused by this tragedy,” said sobervoar, the hot air balloon company in a press release.

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Sobrevoar added that he had followed all the regulations for the journey and already had a clear file. He now suspends his operations indefinitely.

About 25 to 30 hot air balloon trips are leaving for the region, the government said.

A member of the Brazil Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA) walks next to the wreckage of a hot air ball that caught fire and crashed with 21 people on board in Praia Grande, in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil on Saturday. (Silvio Avila / AFP via Getty Images)

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his solidarity to the families of the victims and said the federal government was available to help the investigation.

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Last Sunday, another hot air ball crashed in the state of Brazil of São Paulo, killing a woman and wounding 11 others.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.