Man dies after falling from a hot-air balloon in Australia

A police officer walks past a trailer with a hot-air balloon basket on it after the discovery of a man’s body at Yarra Bend Park in Melbourne (Diego Fedele/AAP Image via AP)

A man fell to his death from a hot-air balloon on Monday as it passed over suburban Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city.

The hot-air balloon took off from Melbourne’s northern suburbs early in the morning and was in the air for about 30 minutes before the man fell from the basket.