Egyptian authorities say five people aboard a tourist boat that sank in the Red Sea and left four dead on Monday, Nov. 25, have now been rescued.

Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi announced that a Finnish national who was on board the afflicted Sea Story boat was rescued on Tuesday, bringing up the number of those rescued today to five, and a search is ongoing for the remaining seven passengers and crew missing.

According to local Egyptian media, a tourist boat capsized off the shores of Marsa Alam shores, with 31 tourists on board.Senior local offici

The governor of the Red Sea region, Amr Hanafy, said rescuers saved 28 people from the vessel south of the coastal town of Marsa Alam, and some were airlifted to receive medical treatment.

An Egyptian diver involved in the rescue operation of people scouring the wreckage of a tourist boat which sank in the Red Sea has described how he found his own nephew among the passengers trapped but still alive on the boat.

Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for seven missing people, the Red Sea Governorate said in a statement.

Four bodies were recovered and several other passengers are still missing after a tourist boat capsized off of Egypt's Red Sea coast. The boat, the Sea Story, left for a multi-day diving trip carrying 44 people when it was struck by high waves and began to sink.