• 2 days ago
A tourist boat carrying 45 Russian tourists encountered a fatal incident near Hurghada, Egypt.

Six deaths have been confirmed, while 39 tourists were rescued.

CGTN’s Adel El Mahrouky has the latest.

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00:00Well, this is part of a touristic event, or a touristic outing, where the crews would
00:08take tourists to see the underwater coral reefs of the famous Egyptian Red Sea.
00:15Beside the some 40 Russian citizens, there were at least 6 others, 3 Egyptian nationals
00:20and 3 Indians on board, as well as 5 crew members on the Sildabad craft.
00:28Basically, so far 6 have been confirmed dead, 5 of them are Russian, the identity of the 6
00:35has not been confirmed yet and therefore his nationality or her nationality has not been
00:39confirmed as well. Most of those rescued are in good health conditions, 9 have been injured in
00:45this process, 4 of them according to Egyptian health ministry report are in critical condition,
00:52they have been all relocated to the nearest hospital. Luckily, Hergada is one of Egypt's
00:59biggest resort cities, there are decent health care facilities there and therefore
01:04both the rescue speed and the medical intervention they're getting hopefully should be enough for
01:10the recovery. The incident happened about 1 kilometer away from the Hergada shore, so not
01:16far into the sea which has definitely contributed to limiting the number of death and casualties.
01:24Adele, thank you for that. Our correspondent Adele El Marouki in Egypt.

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