More than 40 tourists from several countries were saved in the Caribbean Sea after a smaller ship heading for the island near Cartagena, It was introduced on Monday by the Colombian Navy. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The accident occurred on Sunday, about an hour after the ship sailed from Cartagena to the south to the island of Palma. The cause of the accident is not known. According to one of the tourists, the front of the ship was damaged and the vessel began to take water. According to another tourist, the ship then overturned the bottom upwards and the tourists remained stuck in it.
One of the fishermen to the local media told that from the overturned ship saved ten persons. The Coast Guard saved another 32 people, the Navy said. They are all in good health and No one needed urgent medical assistance. According to AFP, there were 42 people on the ship and only three were Colombians. The others came from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru.
