Three our bodies are recovered from capsized vacationer boat in Egypt the place two Brits are amongst 16 lacking individuals

Three bodies have been recovered from a capsized tourist boat that sank off Egypt‘s Red Sea coast yesterday, with 13 people still missing, according to Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi.

The boat named Sea Story reportedly sank near Shaab Satayah, a coral reef popular for diving trips, off the tourist resort of Marsa Alam in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Two British tourists were rescued, while another two Britons are among the missing, according to reports.

The nationalities of the three people whose bodies have been found have not yet been confirmed.

Rescue teams had been ‘intensifying efforts’ to find those who had gone missing after the 34-metre-long boat sank.

Those who escaped the vessel said a ‘high sea wave’ had hit it and caused it to capsize in ‘about five or seven minutes’, Mr Hanafi said.

Some passengers were inside the cabins, ‘which is why they couldn’t get out of the boat’, he added in a statement on Facebook.

The boat named Sea Story (pictured) had 31 tourists of different nationalities as well as 14 crew members on board when it sank