Rescuers on Monday safely recovered 13 more people from a tourist boat that sank after hitting a reef in central Indonesia but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian woman who were still missing, officials said.
The boat sank Saturday evening on its way from Lombok Island to Komodo Island carrying 20 foreign tourists, four Indonesian crewmen and an Indonesian guide.
Ten people all foreigners were rescued Sunday. Eight more foreign tourists and all five Indonesians were found Monday, said Lalu Wahyu Efendi, operational chief for the search and rescue agency in Mataram, the provincial capital of West Nusa Tenggara.
He said the 13 were rescued by fishermen about 27 miles east of where their boat sank off the eastern coast of Sumbawa Island.
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