At least 18 bodies have been recovered and another 12 people have been rescued after a tourist boat capsized in Vietnam’s Halong Bay on Saturday, according to state media.

A tourist boat capsized during a sudden thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday, killing at least 18 people. Nearly two dozen are missing, state media reported.

A tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's Ha Long Bay capsized in a storm on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least 34 people dead, according to state media reports, as rescuers scrambled to locate the missing.