Nine days have passed since the sinking of a sightseeing boat on the Danube River, boarded in Budapest by 33 South Korean passengers and two Hungarian crew members.
On Thursday, three more bodies were found along the river-- two South Korean passengers and one Hungarian crew member raising the death toll to 19.
Authorities have retrieved another body along the Danube River some five-point-eight kilometers downstream from the site where the Mermaid tourist boat capsized last week.
The body was discovered by locals and Seoul's response team in Budapest confirmed it was the body of a South Korean man in his sixties.
Less than two hours later, another body was recovered some 40 kilometers down from the accident site at around eleven-thirty AM, local time.
Authorities identified the victim as a Korean woman in her thirties.
A third body was discovered in the evening about four kilometers down from the wreckage.
The victim was later confirmed to have been one of the two Hungarian crew members who had been on the boat.
Only seven people survived the sinking and nine remain unaccounted for.
A crane has been standing by since Wednesday to salvage the wreckage but has not been able to reach the accident site due to unsafe water levels.
In the meantime, investigations are ongoing over the larger cruise ship that collided with the boat carrying the South Korean tourists.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will decide after this month's G20 Summit whether to carry out his threat to hit Beijing with tariffs on at least 300-billion U.S. dollars' worth of Chinese goods.
With Trump scheduled to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines the G20 Summit in Osaka, the U.S. president said his decision will follow that meeting.
The date for a meeting between the two leaders has not yet been announced.
President Trump's comments come as the trade negotiating teams of the two countries have not met since May 10th.
China's Huawei has signed a deal with Russian telecoms company MTS to develop 5G technology in Russia.
The deal was agreed as Chinese President Xi Jinping continues his three-day state visit to Russia.
Huawei and MTS said in statement that they will begin developing next-generation 5G networks in Russia over the next twelve months.
The Trump administration banned U.S. companies from selling high-tech equipment to the Chinese company over suspicions it was spying for Beijing.
The International Monetary Fund is warning the United States that its escalating trade dispute with China could pose substantial risks for the U.S. economy.
The IMF also said the trade war could wipe 455-billion U.S. dollars off global GDP next year.
With the trade war between the United States and China, the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, warned on Thursday that it could have substantial risks for the U.S. and global economy.
Speaking in Washington, Lagarde said in order for the global economy to function smoothly, it needs to be more open, more stable and more transparent.
Source: Arirang News
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