Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Videos posted on social media showed motorboats coming to the aid of passengers on the upper decks as the boat rocked from side to side. Survivors on local television reports said they heard a loud noise before the boat began to sink and that not all of them had life jackets. Rescue workers and the air force were helping passengers at the scene, President Juan Manuel Santos said in a Twitter post. The large reservoir, about an hour from the central city of Medellin, is a popular tourist destination.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 26, 2017 00:33 UTC