Authorities Ramping Up Search For 21 Still Missing After Budapest Boat Tragedy
- 3 Jun 2019 7:40 AM
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa says Korean and Hungarian authorities are continuing to ramp up efforts to find the missing 21 passengers.
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-hwa says Korean and Hungarian authorities are continuing to ramp up efforts to find the missing 21 passengers.
Breaking news in English from state run M1, the oldest television broadcaster in Hungary.
A vigil was recently held outside the South Korean embassy in Budapest, to remember the victims of a sightseeing boat which capsized in the city's Danube River.
Survivors of the Budapest tour boat disaster say they barely had time to grab hold of a drifting lifeboat while watching in horror as others around them struggled in the dark, rainy waters. Seven people have been confirmed dead and 21 are still missing.
Rescue crews on Friday geared up to raise the sightseeing boat from the bottom of the river while scouring the waters for victims. Seven people are confirmed dead and around 20 are still missing.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha visited the site of Wednesday’s ship collision on the Danube in central Budapest.
Police in Hungary have launched a criminal investigation into a ferry accident on the Danube River. Authorities are searching for survivors after a tourist boat capsized in the capital Budapest. Report of Arabella Munro.
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