CAIRO, Dec 22 (Aswat Masriya) – Egypt’s General Authority for Red Sea Ports announced on Monday ending its search operation for two fishermen who went missing after a boat sank in the sea last week.

The fishing boat, 'Badr al-Islam', was carrying 40 Egyptian fishermen and sailing in the Gabal al-Zayt region when it collided with a trade ship in the Red Sea on December 14.

The health ministry announced on Friday that the death toll of the sunken fishing boat has risen to 25. Thirteen more fishermen were injured in the collision.

Egypt's prosecutor general referred on Saturday the captain and assistant captain of the Kuwaiti trade ship which crashed into the Egyptian fishing boat to an urgent criminal trial.

According to a statement by the prosecutor general, the defendants were charged with manslaughter, refraining from helping the victims and destruction of an Egyptian fishing boat.

Egypt's minister of social solidarity announced last week granting the families of those killed in the incident compensation worth of 10,000 Egyptian pounds.

Around 1000 people died in the Red Sea in February 2006 when a ferry sailing from Saudi Arabia caught fire, going down in history as one of Egypt's worst sea accidents.