2 missing from doomed Philadelphia tour boat were among 15 Hungarians visiting city

2 missing among 15 Hungarians aboard doomed boat

PHILADELPHIA — The Hungarian government says two missing tour boat passengers were part of a group of 15 from that country who had traveled to Philadelphia to take part in a language course.

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the group left Hungary on July 2 and was due to return July 23. Consular official Agnes Klekot says the group included 13 students and two teachers from a high school in the western Hungarian city of Mosonmagyarovar.

She says three Hungarians were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, and were treated and released. Klekot declined to release the identities of the missing students, citing Hungarian law.

The amphibious craft they were riding in was struck Thursday and sunk by a barge in the Delaware River, spilling them and other passengers into the murky waters.