Four Killed in Arizona Hot-Air Balloon Crash

Four people were killed and one person was critically injured when a hot-air balloon crashed in the Arizona desert on Sunday morning, police said.

“The cause of the crash is currently unknown,” the Eloy Police Department said in a statement, adding that the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.

Authorities did not release victims’ names until families could be notified, police said, calling the crash “devastating.” But ABC15 said it had confirmed that 28-year-old nurse Katie Bartrom was among the dead.

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