Tehran, November 08: Iranian authorities have recovered the bodies of two persons missing from a cruise ship, which sank earlier off the port city of Genaveh in the southern Bushehr Province.
The director of the Red Crescent Society in Genaveh, Mahmoud Safaie, said search teams had spotted the two bodies from above and ships were dispatched to recover them.
The bodies were found about 12 kilometers (7 miles) from the site where the cruise ship sank due to a series of punctures in her hull caused by rough seas.
The vessel, with 25 passengers and crewmembers aboard, was en route from Khark Island to the port of Genaveh when it went down on October 30 off the coast of the Persian Gulf.
At the time of the incident, one fatality was reported and three were announced as missing. The remaining 21 people were rescued by nearby fishing boats. The body of one of the three missing individuals had earlier been recovered.
——Agencies