Eight killed in Hungarian boat capsize, minimal hope for 19 South Korean survivors

Prospects were minimal on Thursday for finding 20 people missing from a group of South Korean visitors aboard a pleasure boat that capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital, killing at least eight, authorities said.

The boat reportedly collided with another tourist vessel near the Hungarian parliament on Wednesday, before turning over on the river, which has been flooding, with very strong currents, while a rainstorm enveloped Budapest.

“I am not inclined to say there is no hope, so I would rather say there is a minimal chance (to find more survivors),” Pal Gyorfi, a spokesman of the Hungarian national ambulance service, told state television.

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