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. Ninety-nine people were rescued, Margarita Moncada, the head of disaster relief for Antioquia province, told journalists. 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: bd News24 June 26, 2017 00:33 UTC