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Tourists killed in Egypt hot air balloon explosion

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Egyptians gather at the site where a hot air balloon exploded over the ancient temple city of Luxor on February 26, 2013. The hot air balloon caught fire and exploded over Luxor during a sunrise flight, killing up to 19 tourists, including Asians and Europeans, sources said. The balloon carrying 21 people was flying at 300 metres (1,000 feet) when it caught fire, a security official said. AFP PHOTO/STR
A hot air balloon caught fire and exploded as it was flying over Egypt’s ancient temple city of Luxor on Tuesday, February 26, killing 19 tourists, a security official said. An employee at the company operating the balloon told AFP the tourists were from Korea, Japan and Britain, as well as one Egyptian. “This is terrible, just terrible,” the employee told AFP by telephone in floods of tears, declining to give her name. “We don’t yet know what happened exactly or what went wrong,” she said. The two survivors, including the balloon’s pilot, were taken to the hospital.

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