It was the second fatal balloon accident in the vast South American country in less than a week.
Videos taken by bystanders and carried on Brazilian television showed the moment when the balloon erupted in flames above a rural area outside the Atlantic coast town of Praia Grande, a tourist hotspot popular for hot-air ballooning.
The 13 survivors were treated at hospitals, firefighters said.
Information about the other survivors was not immediately available.
“I want to express my solidarity with the families of the victims,“ Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a statement.
The pilot tried to bring the balloon down as soon as the fire erupted, “and once it was close to the ground, he told the passengers to jump from the basket. But some of them couldn’t do it and the fire grew,“ the official said.
One witness told the Razao newspaper that he saw “two people falling, they were on fire, the basket broke off and the balloon fell.”
Less than a week ago, a woman died during a balloon ride in southeastern Sao Paulo state.
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