South Korea Could Start Returning Bodies From Budapest Boat Disaster

South Korea Could Start Returning Bodies From Budapest Boat Disaster
Rescue team continues its search after a tourist boat accident in the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 4, 2019. Marko Djurica/Reuters
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BUDAPEST—The South Korean government expects to begin returning to Seoul the remains of some of the victims who died last week when a tourist boat sank in Budapest, an official said on June 4, as conditions for exploring the wreckage improved.

Twenty-eight people are presumed to have died when The Mermaid, a pleasure boat carrying 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew, capsized and sank after being hit by a cruise liner in Budapest on May 29.