Hungary police lift capsized tourist boat from river

A police spokesman said Monday that the lifting operation could take six hours, and will be phased to allow divers to search the vessel for any victims still inside.

Hungarian police Tuesday began lifting a sightseeing vessel that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month in an accident that has claimed 20 lives with eight people still missing.

The Mermaid tourist boat was carrying mostly South Korean holidaymakers when it capsized and sank seconds after colliding with a bigger river cruise boat on a busy stretch of the river on May 29.