A video posted on social media exhibits the balloon’s gondola on fireplace. (Representational)

Mexico Metropolis:

Two individuals have died when a hot-air balloon flying over the famed Teotihuacan archeological web site close to Mexico Metropolis caught fireplace, the regional authorities stated Saturday.

“The passengers jumped from the balloon,” the federal government of the state of Mexico stated in a press release, including {that a} youngster suffered burns.

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Saturday, April 01, 2023, within the morning hours.

a scorching air balloon catches fireplace and collapses in Teotihuacan, 2 individuals are reportedly lifeless.

The occasions occurred this morning within the neighborhood of the Pyramid of the Solar and the world was cordoned off. pic.twitter.com/DlzJdv2oHH

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It recognized the victims as a 39-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man, with out offering their names. It stated the minor had suffered second-degree burns to the face in addition to a fracture of the suitable femur.

It didn’t say whether or not there have been another passengers on the balloon.

A video posted on social media exhibits the balloon’s gondola on fireplace, in a wonderfully clear sky.

A number of tour operators provide balloon flights over Teotihuacan, some 45 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of Mexico Metropolis, for round $150.

With its Pyramids of the Solar and the Moon, and its Avenue of the Useless, Teotihuacan is a well-liked vacationer vacation spot, a surviving monument to the pre-Columbian interval.

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