Four bodies recovered from capsized tourist boat in Red Sea with nine missing

Sea Story was carrying 30 tourists and 14 crew when it sent a distress signal on Monday morning

Four bodies have been recovered from a capsized tourist boat that sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast and nine people are still missing, the local governor has said.

The Red Sea governor, Amr Hanafi, said that the yacht, called Sea Story, had been struck by high waves on Monday and sank in less than seven minutes.