2024-05-06 22:52:41
According to preliminary data, 6 of these persons are entertainers. There was also an airplane. The accident happened within the boundaries of the village of Vilkai Kampos.
Lrytas.lt witnesses told the portal that when the house was blocked, people started falling from the bag of the balloon. The balloon also severed electrical wires.
Witnesses said the balloon was dragged by the wind for about 3 kilometers. First the balloon hit the roof of one house, then another. Due to gusts of wind, it later hit a farm building, broke an apple tree and a fir tree.
As a portal lrytas.lt informed the Situation Coordination Department of the Fire Protection and Rescue Department, the firefighters who rushed to the scene helped medics provide first aid to the victims.
“All conscious taken to a medical facility,” – lrytas.lt a representative of the Situation Coordination Department told the portal.
The area was cordoned off due to downed power lines.
The Police Department, which announced the accident on Monday morning, stated that the hot air balloon became uncontrollable due to a change in the direction of the wind and, after hitting the buildings in the village of Vilkä Kampos, got stuck in a tree. According to the police, a man (born in 1963), a minor (born in 2009), a minor (born in 2011), a woman (born in 1990), a man (born in 1963), a woman (b. 1970) and a woman who piloted a hot air balloon.
A pre-trial investigation has been initiated in accordance with Article 139 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. 2 d.
2024-05-06 22:52:41