At least six Russian tourists, two of them children, died when an Egyptian commercial submarine carrying 50 people sank in the Red Sea near the resort city of Hurghada. The Red Sea Governorate said the submarine had 50 people on board, 45 tourists and five crew, Reuters reported.

Six people are dead, including two children, after a tourist submarine sank in the Egyptian Red Sea.The vessel, called Sindbad, was taking tourists to explore coral reefs off the coastal city of Hurghada before it crashed and sank 1km offshore on Thursday.

The accident happened off the coast of Hurghada - the Russian embassy in Egypt says all the tourists on board were Russian.

The vessel went down on Thursday after setting off from the harbour in the tourist promenade area in the coastal city of Hurghada.View on euronews

Six people were killed when a tourist submarine sank off the coast of the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada in Egypt, local media reported Thursday.

At least six people were killed and nine others injured when an Egyptian tourist submarine sank off the coast of the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, local media reported Thursday. The fatalities were not Egyptian but there nationalities were not immediately available,

This is the second incident involving a tourist vessel in the Red Sea in recent months. In November, a boat capsized near Marsa Allam, which left 11 people missing, presumed dead. The Sindbad had been in operation as a tourist submarine for a number of years.

A submarine carrying Russian tourists sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Thursday, leaving at least six people dead and rescue workers scrambling to pull people out of the water, local officials said.

A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians dead, the provincial governor said.