Egypt: 15 Bodies Are Recovered After Ferry Sinks in Nile River
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Version 0 of 1. Egyptian search parties on Friday recovered a man’s body from the Nile River, raising the death toll to 15 in the sinking of a small ferryboat on New Year’s Eve, officials said. Two more people believed to have been on the boat were still missing. The chief of the country’s River Transport Authority, Reda Ismail, told the state news agency, MENA, that the ferry did not have a license to operate between the Nile Delta villages. The boat sank late Thursday in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. It was not immediately clear what had caused the accident. Nile boat collisions and capsizing are common in Egypt. |