Authorities in Egypt say a luxury yacht that set off with 44 people from the Red Sea port of Ghalib for a week-long diving trip sank, with 32 rescued and 8 still missing.

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian authorities rescued 28 people after a tourist boat sank off its Red Sea coast, the Red Sea Governorate said in a statement on Monday, as a search continued for the 17 remaining passengers and crew.

At least 16 people are missing after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea following warnings about rough seas, Egyptian officials said Monday.

Egyptian authorities are searching for 17 people missing after a tourist boat sank off the country’s Red Sea coast.

Four bodies were retrieved one day after Monday’s shipwreck, according to local authorities. Search teams rescued 33 people and seven people remained missing on Tuesday.

At least 28 rescued after the boat, called Sea Story and carrying 44 people, sinks near the coastal town of Marsa Alam.

CAIRO (Reuters) -Sixteen people including 12 foreign nationals are missing after a tourist boat sank off Egypt's Red Sea coast, the local government said on Monday. The Sea Story was carrying 44 including 31 tourists and 13 crew on a multi-day diving trip when it went down near the town of Marsa Alam,

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.

Watch as rescuers help Egyptian yacht survivors after the Sea Story boat sank off the Red Sea coast. Four Britons are among dozens of people feared missing after a tourist yacht was “hit by a wave” and sank off the coast of Egypt on Monday (25 November).