(Updates death toll)

CAIRO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Police divers have pulled the bodies of five people, including three children, from the Nile river, bringing the death toll from a holiday ferry accident to 13, the state Middle East News Agency (MENA) said on Wednesday.

Five other people were slightly injured in the accident on Sunday in the province of Minya, 200 km (120 miles) south of Cairo, that occurred over the Eid el-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

MENA had quoted the governor of Minya as saying that a large number of passengers had been trying to get on the ferry when a ramp linking it to the river bank collapsed.

Security officials said one of the boat's railings also collapsed, sending more people into the water.

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