RESCUE workers searched on Thursday for a second day looking for 20 people missing after an accident on the Nile river in southern Egypt, which left two confirmed dead. The accident happened late on Tuesday when two motor boats, one empty and the other carrying around 30 people, collided near a village in the region of Luxor, police sources said. Rescuers have saved 11 people, who swam toward the river bank, while two corpses were found on Wednesday morning. Twenty people were still counted missing Thursday night, but the exact number of passengers has not yet been established. The passengers were heading to a village festival, police said. – AFP
Thursday November 1, 2001