ALARM - Loss of contact with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 people
CAIRO - the Egyptian and Saoudi maritime authorities lost contact Friday with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 passengers, as a majority of the Egyptians, which sailed at sea Rouge, coming from Saudi Arabia, one learned from sedentary source.
Sounds like hajj pilgrims.
CAIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Coastal stations have lost contact with a ferry carrying some 1,310 mainly Egyptian passengers from the Saudi port of Jeddah to Safaga on Egypt's Red Sea coast, security sources said on Friday.The ferry should have reached Safaga at 2 a.m. local time (midnight GMT) but did not arrive, they said.
Those stealth ferry-boats will do that every time.