Los Angeles:
Four people today died and a further was seriously injured in a hot air balloon accident in Albuquerque, in the southwestern United States, the city’s police announced Saturday.
The accident triggered energy outages in the location for many hours soon after the balloon came into make contact with with a energy line.
“Unfortunately, 4 individuals died as a result of their wounds from the hot air balloon crash,” Albuquerque police mentioned on Twitter.
“One additional individual was transported to a local hospital and is currently in critical and unstable condition,” it added.
Early Saturday morning, some 13,000 people today have been without the need of energy for the reason that of the accident, nearby utility PNM tweeted.
Power was later restored to all impacted prospects, it mentioned.
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