Amateur video has captured the moment when a hot air balloon crashed in Egypt yesterday, killing 19 people.

The balloon came down in farmland near the Valley of the Kings and pharaonic temples, sites popular with tourists.

In the footage smoke can be seen pouring from the balloon before it deflates and the basket crashes to earth.

One Egyptian was also killed, along with tourists from Japan, China, France, Britain and Hungary.

Transport accidents are frequent in Egypt. Dozens of children were killed in November when the bus they were on collided with a train. Accidents affecting foreign tourists are rarer, but not unusual. Five Germans were killed in December in a bus crash near a Red Sea resort.

Hot air ballooning at dawn is popular with tourists, who are a mainstay of the Egyptian economy, although visitor numbers have fallen sharply since a 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Two years of political instability have kept many foreign tourists away.