Divers have recovered a body from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank last week in Budapest, and another body was pulled from the river downstream.
A total of 28 people are presumed dead after pleasure boat The Mermaid, carrying 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew, capsized and sank after being hit by a cruise liner in the centre of Budapest on Wednesday.
South Korean and Hungarian divers worked as a team on Monday in an attempt to recover bodies from the wreck, the first day they've been able to approach it after currents and storm waters kept them away.
Seven bodies were recovered on the night of the accident and seven Koreans were rescued alive.
Authorities have said the other 21 people on board are all presumed to have been killed in the worst disaster on the Danube for more than half a century.
Hungarian divers found a body during an exploratory dive at the wreck, and later South Korean divers pulled it from the river.
Police said another body found earlier on Monday near a village 115 km downriver from the capital had been identified as the eighth victim of the disaster.
Authorities were still working to identify the body pulled from the river in Budapest.
The Mermaid capsized after being struck from behind by a large cruise liner near a bridge in the centre of Budapest in driving rain.
After days in which Hungarian divers were unable to reach the wreck, South Korea sent its own recovery team which joined the operation on Monday.
The South Korean rescue team aims to recover bodies while the shipwreck is still on the river bed. The Hungarians say that is a possibility but they have also considered lifting the hull out of the water first.
The Ukrainian captain of the Viking Sigyn cruise liner which collided with The Mermaid has been detained and faces a criminal investigation. He denies wrongdoing.
Video footage from surveillance cameras show the bigger ship bearing down on the smaller vessel as they both pass under the bridge.
A captain of another boat on duty nearby at the time of the accident told news channel TV2 on Sunday that the captain of the cruise liner never radioed the smaller vessel.
"We heard nothing of any kind of an attempted overtaking manoeuvre, warning, or danger signal on the radio," Zoltan Tolnay said.
