A rescue team continues its search after a tourist boat accident, killing several people in the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Divers brought up a body on Monday from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank last week in Budapest, and another body was pulled from the river 100 km downstream, identified by police as the eighth victim of the disaster.
Twenty-eight people are presumed to have died when The Mermaid, a pleasure boat carrying 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew, capsized and sank after being hit by a cruise liner in the centre of Budapest on Wednesday.
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