{"id":17792,"date":"2024-11-25T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/egypt-launches-rescue-mission-after-tourist-boat-sinks-in-red-sea\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:03:37","slug":"egypt-launches-rescue-mission-after-tourist-boat-sinks-in-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/egypt-launches-rescue-mission-after-tourist-boat-sinks-in-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt launches rescue mission after tourist boat sinks in Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Egyptian authorities say rescuers have found survivors after a tourist boat with 45 people on board sank in the Red Sea.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A distress signal was received at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) from the 44m-long (144ft) Sea Story, which left port near Marsa Alam on Saturday for a diving trip with 31 tourists and 14 crew, according to the governor of Egypt\u2019s Red Sea province.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Maj-Gen Amr Hanafi said some of the survivors found in the Wadi el-Gemal area, which is south of Marsa Alam, have been transported by aircraft to receive medical care and that others were waiting to be picked up by an Egyptian warship.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Air and naval units were continuing to search for the missing, he added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2m7z9xpndo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian authorities say rescuers have found survivors after a tourist boat with 45 people on board sank in the Red Sea. A distress signal was received at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) from the 44m-long (144ft) Sea Story, which left port near Marsa Alam on Saturday for a diving trip with 31 tourists and 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17794,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792\/revisions\/17794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}