Cairo — Six vacationers died on Thursday when a vacationer submarine sank off the resort of Hurghada on Egypt’s Purple Beach, state media reported. The web site of the state-owned Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper stated the deceased have been all foreigners, including that 19 others have been injured.
Investigations have been underway to find out what brought about the accident, in response to the newspaper, which stated the injured have been transported to close by hospitals together with the our bodies of the deceased.
Hurghada, a bustling vacationer metropolis some 285 miles southeast of the Egyptian capital Cairo, is a significant vacation spot for guests to Egypt.
The Purple Sea coral reefs and islands off Egypt’s japanese coast are main attracts, contributing to the nation’s very important tourism sector which employs two million folks and generates greater than 10 p.c of GDP.
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Whereas dozens of vacationer boats sail by the coastal space each day for snorkeling and diving actions, the web site of Sindbad Submarines, the vessel proprietor in response to Akhbar Al-Youm, stated the corporate deploys the area’s “solely actual” leisure submarine.
The Reuters information company cited the Russian consulate in Hurghada as saying the vacationers on the sunken vessel have been Russian nationals.
