Tuesday
morning in Egypt, there was hot air balloon crash. As one of the balloons began
to land an explosion sounded through the air and was followed by smoke. One of
the balloons had exploded, with 21 people riding on it, and crashed approximately
1,000 feet, also being 300 meters, to the ground.
By
Tuesday afternoon the death toll rose to 19 people and it became the deadliest
hot air balloon accident in the world in at least 20 years. The state-run EgyNews
has reported that the cause of the hot air balloon accident was a gas
explosion.
The
balloon contained 19 foreign tourists. Nine of the tourists were form Hong
Kong, four from Japan, three from Britain, two from France, and one from Hungary.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/26/world/africa/egypt-balloon-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
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