Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)

At least 7 people dead, 13 still missing after tourist boat sinks

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Scuba divers on Monday continued searching for bodies in a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin where a tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers capsized, leaving at least seven people dead and 13 missing.

After suspending their search overnight due to a lightning storm, scuba divers by midmorning Monday had pulled a seventh body from the underwater wreckage. Authoritie­s were also turning their attention to the causes of the sinking and whether the company that owned the boat named El Almirante contribute­d to the accident.

A flotilla of recreation­al boats and jet skis had rushed to the scene, pulling people from the boat as it went down and avoiding an even deadlier tragedy.

Dramatic videos circulatin­g on social media show the turquoise-and-yellow-trimmed party boat rocking back and forth as people crawled down from a fourth-deck roof as it sank in a matter of minutes.

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