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Hot air balloons banned in Luxor

February 26 2013 at 03:45pm

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An Egyptian rescue worker collects remains near the scene of a balloon crash outside al-Dhabaa village, just west of the city of Luxor, 510 kilometers south of Cairo.

Cairo -

The governor of Egypt's southern province of Luxor on Tuesday ordered a ban of all hot air balloons flights in the ancient temple city following a deadly crash that killed 19 tourists.

“Governor Ezzat Saad ordered that all balloon companies stop working, and that no hot hair balloon flights take off from Luxor,” the official MENA news agency reported, without specifying how long the ban would remain in place. - Sapa-AFP


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