Man dies in hot air balloon fire during festival
It happened during the inaugural Enrique Estrada Fair in central Mexico.
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The Secretary General of the Zacatecas government, Rodrigo Reyes Mugüerza, confirmed the fatal accident in a Facebook post, saying the man died during the balloon festival.
'I regret to inform that… a person lost his life after an unfortunate incident while on board a hot air balloon,' Reyes Mugüerza wrote in Spanish.
The incident occurred around 8 a.m. local time, about 19 miles outside the city of Zacatecas, according to Riviera Maya News.
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Video footage shared on social media showed the balloon bursting into flames before taking off from the ground with a person still attached to it.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.
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