Footage shared by local media showed billows of smoke coming from the balloon in flames as it hurtled towards the ground in Brazil on Saturday.

At least eight people are dead following an accident involving a hot air balloon in Brazil’s southern region of Santa Catarina on Saturday, according to the local governor.

Eight dead and 13 injured after hot air balloon crashes in Brazil - Miraculously 13 people survived after hot-air balloon caught fire and plummeted from sky