Twenty-four of those on board were rescued, some of whom are still in hospital, but dozens of others may be missing. Divers are still searching the waters but hope is fading on the possibility of finding more survivors.

Rescuers found five survivors and four bodies on Tuesday from the wreck of a boat carrying tourists that sank amid high waves off the Red Sea coast of Egypt a day earlier, according to the Egyptian authorities. Search efforts were continuing for seven other missing passengers and crew, they said.

More than a dozen tourists were feared missing after a diving boat sank off Egypt's Red Sea coast, authorities said on Monday. The boat, The Sea Story, sank off the southeastern Egyptian town of Marsa Alam,

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

Rescuers were searching for survivors after the vessel, taking passengers to a food market, capsized along the River Niger, officials said.

At least 27 people died and more than 100, mostly women, were missing on Friday, after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria, authorities said.

At least 27 people died and more than 100 are missing after a boat capsizes on Niger River, authorities in Nigeria say