S. Korean team searching for missing people in salvaged Danube boat

  • 5 years ago
허블레아니호 '정밀 감식' 진행…강 하류 수색도 계속

Turning to the latest on the tragic sinking late last month of a tourist boat in Budapest, Hungary.
The boat's been raised from the bottom of the Danube and relocated a little further downstream, where a team of South Koreans have gone inside of it to look for more bodies.
They went in at around 5 p.m., Korea time.
Meanwhile, there are five other vessels being used by South Koreans to search the site where the tourist boat sank, and the Hungarians have sent a helicopter.
The search will mainly focus on the bottom of the boat itself and downstream from where it sank.
It's hard to predict how long the search will take, but the South Korean authorities say it is still going on because the boat is full of sand and dirt.
South Korea and Hungary have reaffirmed their willingness to do their utmost to find the four missing victims.
While Hungary's prosecution is still investigating into the accident, the Ukrainian captain of the cruise ship that caused the tour boat to sink has been released on bail.
With four more bodies retrieved on Tuesday, the death toll stands at 24 with four people still missing.

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