Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi said Monday that the tourist yacht, which sank south of Marsa Alam, went down after being hit by a sudden and high sea wave, causing it to capsize within 5-7 minutes.

Egyptian naval forces have rescued three more people and recovered four bodies, a day after a tourist yacht carrying 44 passengers sank in the Red Sea coastal town of Marsa Alam after facing rough weather.

Egyptian authorities said more than a dozen people, mostly foreigners, were still missing after a tourist yacht capsized in the Red Sea on Monday, with 28 others rescued.

Some 45 people, including 31 tourists and 14 crew members, are missing after their safari boat sank off the northern area of Marsa Alam city at the Red Sea, the Red Sea Province said on its official Facebook page on Monday.

Rescuers found five survivors and four bodies on Tuesday from the wreck of a boat carrying tourists that sank amid high waves off the Red Sea coast of Egypt a day earlier, according to the Egyptian authorities. Search efforts were continuing for seven other missing passengers and crew, they said.

The search operation for seven people still missing from a dive boat that capsized and sank off Egypt's east coast entered a third day on Wednesday, the governor of the Red Sea province said.The governor's office said the search operation was continuing for seven people still missing after the "Sea Story" was struck by a wave and capsized in the middle of the night on Monday.

CAIRO (Reuters) -Sixteen people including 12 foreign nationals are missing after a tourist boat sank off Egypt's Red Sea coast, the local government said on Monday. The Sea Story was carrying 44 including 31 tourists and 13 crew on a multi-day diving trip when it went down near the town of Marsa Alam,

An Egyptian diver involved in the rescue operation of people scouring the wreckage of a tourist boat which sank in the Red Sea has described how he found his own nephew among the passengers trapped but still alive on the boat.