A French and a Russian tourist have died while diving off the coast of central Vietnam, police said Wednesday, dpa reported.
Another Russian was found unconscious in the sea near the tourist island destination of Cu Lao Cau, and was being treated in hospital, Dinh Kim Lap, a police official of Tuy Phong District of Binh Thuan province, told the German Press Agency dpa.
The cause of Monday's accident was "not clear," Lap said. "The case has been handed over to Binh Thuan Provincial Police."
The province's police said the dead were French citizen Philippe Bousseau, 47 and Russian Alexander A Nikolav, 42. The bodies were being kept at Binh Thuan Provincial General Hospital awaiting autopsy.
On Monday, fishermen were alerted when they discovered a third diver, a Russian whose name was only given as Pavel, floating unconscious in the water.
On regaining consciousness, he indicated to his rescuers that there were two more divers. The fisherman dove to search for them, but found they had died underwater.
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