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Global News Podcast

Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's Red Sea coast with at least six people confirmed dead. Also, Trump imposes new tariffs on foreign cars, and the devastation Sudan's civil war has caused to the National Museum.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.7

I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 27th of March, these are our main stories.

0:12.6

A tourist submarine sinks off the Egyptian Red Sea city of Hagarda.

0:17.6

At least six people are confirmed dead.

0:20.3

President Trump imposes 25% tariffs on foreign car imports,

0:25.3

and Parliament in Israel passes a contentious bill that would increase political influence over the appointment of judges.

0:33.9

Also in this podcast, the Ghanaian journalist who won a multi-million dollar court case.

0:39.9

The bigger impact for me is not the money, but it's the fact that young journalists are encouraged to believe that no matter how big you are a politician, we also have the capacity to stand tall to toe with you.

0:52.6

And will pig's livers solve the problem of transplant organs?

1:00.2

But we start our podcast

1:01.9

in Egypt where six tourists

1:04.5

died when the submarine they were on sank in the

1:07.0

Red Sea, just four months. After the sinking

1:09.9

of another dive vessel in the same area,

1:12.4

leaving 11 people dead or missing. The Russian embassy in Cairo has said that all the people

1:17.8

who died today were from Russia. I got the latest from our correspondent in the Egyptian capital,

1:23.9

Sally Nebile. What we know is that a submarine has sunk this morning off the cost of the Red Sea resort of Hergada.

1:32.8

It had 45 tourists on board, according to the Russian embassy in Cairo that confirmed that all the tourists were Russians,

1:42.7

in addition to the Egyptian crew, of course. What we know so far

1:46.5

is that six people are dead and nine are injured and they have been moved to local hospitals

1:53.2

to get treatment. We understand that four of them are lying in a critical condition, but we don't

1:59.2

know exactly what caused the submarine to sink,

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