CAIRO (Reuters) - A search and rescue plane spotted a lifeboat with passengers in the Red Sea on Friday near where an Egyptian ferry carrying some 1,300 people disappeared, an Egyptian health ministry official said.
"One of the planes saw a lifeboat out at sea," said the official, who asked not to be named. He was speaking from the Red Sea port of Safaga, where the Al Salam 89 was meant to arrive from Saudi Arabia on Friday morning.
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