An Egyptian diver involved in the rescue operation of people scouring the wreckage of a tourist boat which sank in the Red Sea has described how he found his own nephew among the passengers trapped but still alive on the boat.

CAIRO: Seven people remained missing two days after a safari boat capsized off Egypt's southeastern Red Sea coast, according to Egyptian Armed Forces Spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez.

Egyptian authorities said more than a dozen people, mostly foreigners, were still missing after a tourist yacht capsized in the Red Sea on Monday, with 28 others rescued.