The authorities of Egypt They recovered this Tuesday four lifeless bodies from the area where the ship sank yesterday tourist yacht ‘Sea Story’ in Marsa Alam, in the Red Seaand they were also able to rescue four other survivors after more than a day of rescue operations.
“Seven people were found, including three alive, and four bodies were recovered from the Marsa Alam boat accident,” the governor of the Red Sea province, Amro Hanafi, said in a first statement, noting that two of the survivors They are of Belgian nationality and the other is Egyptian.
Later, he announced the rescue of a fourth survivor, a person of Swiss nationality, thanks to the efforts of the Navy team.
Until now, Egyptian authorities have managed to rescue 36 peoplefour of them deceased, while members of the Egyptian Army and other security forces continue working to find another nine missing.
Hanafi stated that the bodies of the four deceased have not yet been identified, while he indicated that “the necessary medical care will be provided to the survivors”, whose health status has not been revealed.
Diplomatic sources in Cairo informed EFE that among the survivors are five Spaniards that they were rescued yesterday and that they are fine.
Among the other tourists on board were also four Germans, two Belgians, one Chinese, two Americans, three Slovaks, two Swiss, four British, two Poles, two Norwegians, one Irish and one Finn, as well as four Egyptians, they told EFE. sources from the Egyptian Red Sea province on condition of anonymity.
Two of the missing are British, according to official sources cited by the United Kingdom press, while in ‘Sea Story’ they are also There were 13 Egyptians in the crew.
The Egyptian authorities stated that the accident was caused “by a large sea wave that hit the ship and capsized it suddenly and quickly, in about 5 or 7 minutes,” while “some of the passengers were inside the cabins, for “They didn’t manage to get off the ship.”
Nevertheless, They continue investigating to clarify the causes of the accident of this boat34 meters long and 9.5 meters wide, which sank in the Al Ghadeer area, near the Marsa Alam region, about 740 kilometers southeast of Cairo.
Security sources indicated that the ship began a six-day diving trip this Sunday from the resort city of Hurghada, also in the Red Sea, to an area of Marsa Alam – further south – before running aground on coral reefs. and sink in the Al Ghadeer area.
“The Red Sea governorate control center received a distress signal at 5:30 a.m. on Monday (2:30 GMT) from a member of the boat who was on a diving trip,” the sources explained.
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