{"id":6167,"date":"2013-02-26T05:16:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T05:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/19-tourists-killed-in-balloon-accident-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:29:53","slug":"19-tourists-killed-in-balloon-accident-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/19-tourists-killed-in-balloon-accident-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Tourists Killed in Balloon Accident in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists reportedly killed in a hot air balloon crash near the Egyptian city of Luxor.}}<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was at 1,000 ft (300m) when it caught fire and plunged onto fields west of Luxor, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>At least two people, including the balloon&#8217;s pilot, reportedly survived; apparently by jumping out of the balloon before it crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Luxor is home to some of Egypt&#8217;s most famous pharaonic-era ruins.<\/p>\n<p>It lies on the banks of the River Nile in the south of the country, and has long been a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2048 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/blnm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists reportedly killed in a hot air balloon crash near the Egyptian city of Luxor.}} The balloon was at 1,000 ft (300m) when it caught fire and plunged onto fields west of Luxor, officials said. At least two people, including the balloon&#8217;s pilot, reportedly survived; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000002048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000002048,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/blnm.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000102402,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions\/2000102402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000002048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}