The tourism balloon carrying 21 people caught fire and crashed in the southern state of Santa Catararina.

Thirteen survivors are now in hospital.

This comes after a balloon crash in Brazil last week that left one person dead and 11 injured.

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22 Jun: A body believed to be missing Christchurch woman Elisabeth Nicholls, has been found in central Christchurch

22 Jun: Reports two people have been seriously injured, in a crash on State Highway Two East, at Waimana, near Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty

22 Jun: There are reports of injuries following a serious crash in the Bay of Plenty - with motorists asked to avoid the area

22 Jun: A person has died after a single-vehicle crash in Auckland's East Tamaki

21 Jun: Two people are in hospital with critical injuries after an assault at Auckland's Pakuranga night markets earlier this evening

21 Jun: A well-known hoarders home in Hastings is smouldering, after an inferno overnight

21 Jun: A man's been arrested following a suspicious house fire in Levin

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