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The accident occurred during the launch of a hot air balloon near Lake Constance in Switzerland. The 86-year-old German was part of a group that wanted to take part in the balloon flight.
Not far from Lake Constance, an 86-year-old German man was hit by the basket of a hot air balloon in Switzerland. The man from the Konstanz district succumbed to his serious injuries on site, reports the police in the canton of Thurgau.
He was accompanied by a group, some of whom wanted to take part in the balloon flight, as a police spokesman told the dpa. The accident happened on Thursday evening during the starting process. How this came about is still being investigated. The balloon was supposed to take off from a meadow near Salen-Reutenen, around 20 kilometers west of Konstanz.

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