CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted the owner of a ferry that sank two years ago in the Red Sea, killing more than 1,000 people. The ship's owner and his son were cleared of negligence and ...

SAFAGA, Egypt – The series of tragic errors that apparently claimed more than 1,000 lives on an Egyptian ferry escalated when the crew decided to push across the Red Sea despite the fire burning in ...

CAIRO (AP) — All 1,200 passengers who were on board a ferry that caught fire on the Red Sea en route to Egypt’s port of Nuweiba were rescued and the blaze was quickly extinguished, Egyptian and ...

CAIRO — Rescue teams scoured the dark waters of the Red Sea for survivors after an Egyptian ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sank in stormy weather early Friday. A day later, just 324 survivors ...

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SAFAGA, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying nearly 1,500 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and ...

On February 3, 2006 Al-Salam ferry sank in the middle of the Red Sea killing more than 1,000 people who were coming to Safaga, Egypt from Saudi Arabia. The passengers were mainly Egyptian workers in ...

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More evidence has emerged of the Egyptian authorities’ negligent role in the Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 ferry disaster. On February 3, an estimated 1,000 of the 1,400 passengers on board the vessel died in ...