AKIPRESS.COM - Two female foreign nationals died Thursday when the engine of a boat carrying 35 foreign passengers and four Indonesian crew caught fire off Bali, CNN reports citing authorities.

The speedboat was traveling from Padang Bai port in eastern Bali to nearby Gili Island when the fire broke out after 9:30 a.m. local time.

The tourist vessel was roughly 200 meters from port when flames took hold, said Heronimus Guru, deputy of operations for the National Search and Rescue Agency.

An Austrian woman was one of the dead, according to police, while the identity of the second victim is reportedly German.

There were also tourists from the UK, France, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Spain on board, according to a passenger manifest.