BUDAPEST, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Another victim of the tragic Hungarian boat crash has been identified in the river Danube some 100 kms south of Budapest, according to a Hungarian police statement published here on Thursday morning.
"The man found at the Danube section between Bolcske and Madocsa was also a passenger" of the sunken boat Hableany (Mermaid), the statement said.
"Colleagues of the Danube Water Police Station recovered a male body from the Danube between Bolcske and Madocsa late in the afternoon of 12 June 2019. The body was identified, the man so far looked for as a missing person is a victim of the Danube boat accident of 29 May 2019," it said.
The police are still looking for three South Korean passengers along the Danube between Margit Bridge in Budapest, the venue of the crash, and the southern state border.
From the 35 people onboard, only seven survived. Twenty-eight people, including 26 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew members, died after the Mermaid sightseeing boat capsized and sank seconds after colliding with the Swiss Viking Sigyn cruise ship. Three people are still registered as missing.
