Six vacationers died in the demise of a tourist submarine in the Red Sea in Egypt. The misfortune happened off the coast of Hurghada, which was also popular with German bathing resorts.
According to rescue workers, a tourist submarine has dropped in front of the Egyptian holiday resort of Hurghada in the Red Sea. The local authorities in Hurghada said that six people were killed.
The Russian consulate in Hurghada said that emergency services had saved at least 38 Russian citizens. 14 of them were taken to the hospital, the others had returned to their hotels.
Apparently many Russians under the victims
According to the Russian Consul General in Hurghada, Viktor Woropayev, five Russian tourists died in the accident. A total of 45 Russian tourists, including children, were on board, he told the state -owned Russian news agency TASS.
The sunken boat bore the name “Sindbad”. According to media reports, it was a so -called half -diver with a lower deck from which the underwater world can be observed. According to the reports, the passengers wanted to look at coral reefs. The boat had dropped in front of the marina of a hotel in the city of Hurghada, which was popular with holidaymakers.
Misfortune last November
It was only last November that a vacationer boat with more than 40 people had also dropped on board in the Red Sea in front of Egypt. Six deaths were recovered, five people were considered missing – among them two Germans. At that time it was the motor yacht “Sea Story2”, which brought tourists to diving sites in the Red Sea.
At the tour operator TUI, Egypt is the third most popular travel destination in the Easter holidays. 13 percent of vacationers spend their vacation there, as the company announced.
Hurghada, which is around 460 kilometers southeast of Cairo on the Red Sea, belongs to Egypt's tourist hotspots. From here, many holidaymakers go on excursions to coral riffs and islands in the Red Sea. According to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin from mid -March, around 1.5 million German tourists traveled to Egypt in 2023 and thus represented the largest group of foreign tourists in the North African country.
