Sizzling air balloons are seen over Cappadocia. (File)
Istanbul:
Two Spaniards had been killed and three others injured on Tuesday when their sizzling air balloon crashed in excessive winds within the vacationer magnet of Cappadocia in Turkey, native authorities mentioned.
“The recent air balloon got here down abruptly at 8:50 am (0550 GMT) after it unexpectedly turned very windy,” mentioned the governor’s workplace in Nevsehir, the central province the place the spectacular excessive plateau of Cappadocia is positioned.
The balloon, which took off from a monastery close to the city of Avanos, was carrying 28 vacationers and two crew members.
The authorities mentioned that they had launched an inquiry into the accident.
Sizzling air balloon journeys are a key attraction in Cappadocia, which is legendary for its historic troglodyte villages and “fairy chimneys”, normal out of the rock by millennia of abrasion.
There have been a number of balloon accidents in recent times.
Three Brazilian vacationers died and 22 different folks had been injured when two sizzling air balloons collided in 2013.
In 2017, a Danish vacationer died when a balloon crash-landed in excessive winds.
Two months later a French diplomat was killed and several other different folks had been injured when their balloon hit an influence line.
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