Hungarian police recovered more bodies on Tuesday as they lifted a sightseeing boat that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month in an accident that has claimed at least 24 lives.
Police were seen removing another four bodies from the vessel while four people are still missing about two weeks after the tragedy, the worst such incident in Hungary in 75 years.
The lifting operation began at around 6 am (0400 GMT) and six hours later the Mermaid tourist boat was almost entirely out of the water.
Early on in the operation, police were seen by an AFP photographer at the site removing four bodies from the vessel.
Several dozen rescue workers could be seen taking part in the operation, including members of a team sent from South Korea.
The Mermaid was carrying mostly South Korean holidaymakers when it capsized and sank on the evening of May 29, just seconds after colliding with a bigger river cruise boat on a busy stretch of the river.
Those on board included a six-year-old girl travelling with her mother and grandparents, and the Mermaid’s Hungarian captain.
Only seven of the 35 people on board are known to have survived the accident, with the prospect of finding any more passengers alive seen as practically zero.