Plane spots lifeboat with passengers in Red Sea

CAIRO (Reuters) – A search and rescue plane spotted a
lifeboat with passengers in the Red Sea on Friday near where an
Egyptian ferry diappeared with about 1,300 passengers, an
Egyptian health ministry official said.

“One of the planes saw a lifeboat out at sea,” said the
official, who asked not to be named. He was speaking from the
Red Sea port of Safaga, where the Al Salam 98 was meant to
arrive from Saudi Arabia on Friday morning.