The submarine, carrying 45 tourists, sank about a half-mile off the coast of Egypt. At least five Russian tourists died, including two children, the Russian embassy said.

The Sindbad submarine, which sank in the Red Sea on Thursday, has been running tourist trips in the popular Hurghada area for several years. Among the many tourists who enjoyed a trip in the past on the leisure vessel were members of the Williams Street Family Diaries YouTube channel.

People walk next to an Egyptian police vehicle in front of the hospital where the bodies of foreigners who were killed when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, and whose whose nationalities are still unknown,