Three dead, 30 missing in Colombia tourist boat wreck: police

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least three people were dead and 30 were missing after a boat carrying some 150 tourists sank in a reservoir in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, police said.

Officials did not indicate what caused the boat to sink in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape.

“So far we have three people deceased” and “approximately 30 missing,” police commander Jorge Hernando Nieto said on BluRadio.