The vacationer boat, names Hurricane had 15 vacationers and 12 crew members on board. Three UK guests are lacking.

The yacht caught hearth whereas cruising the gorgeous Egyptian Crimson Beach.

More than likely, a brief circuit within the boat’s engine room made the ship go into flames off the southern Crimson Sea resort city of Marsa Alam.

“{An electrical} quick circuit within the boat’s engine room sparked the blaze.”

Marsa Alam is a city in south-eastern Egypt, situated on the western shore of the Crimson Sea.

The city is seen as an rising vacationer vacation spot and has proven important developments following the opening of Marsa Alam Worldwide Airport in 2003

A search was launched to seek out the remaining three British vacationers, whose identities weren’t revealed.

The boat was on a six-day cruise and due again on Sunday when the fireplace broke out roughly 25km (16 miles) north of Marsa Alam.

Pictures posted on social media confirmed a white motor yacht with the identical title on hearth at sea, with thick smoke billowing into the sky.

Ahmed Maher was watching the catastrophe unfold from the shore. He instructed Al Jazeera Information the boat was about 9km from the seashore.

On Thursday, a Russian vacationer was eaten by a shark within the waters of the Egyptian Crimson Sea metropolis of Hurghada.