According to Amr Hanafi's Red Sea regional authorities, 16 people, including 12 foreigners and four Egyptians, were missing, with five more rescued and four recovered as bodies during the search on the 26th local time.
This brings the total number of survivors to 33 and the number of missing to seven.
Earlier, a yacht carrying 31 foreign tourists and 13 Egyptian crew members sank in the waters south of Marsa-Alam village in the Red Sea early on the 25th local time.
According to rescued tourists and crew members, the 34-meter-long yacht was overturned after hitting a large wave.
The nationality of foreign tourists was confirmed to be the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and China, and there were no Koreans.
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