Two die in Paris boat tragedy

TWO people, who were seriously injured when a pleasure boat carrying 12 people sank in the River Seine in central Paris, died yesterday, police said.

The pair, a 45-year-old man and a six-year-old boy, died within hours of being trapped in the sunken boat for 20 minutes on Saturday night near the French capital’s Notre Dame cathedral, hospital officials said.

Their identity was not given but the man was not the boy’s father as had been assumed earlier.