The search for two French tourists who are missing two weeks after being lost at sea will continue “so long as there are reasonable chances of success”, a spokesman for the Armed Forces of Malta said.

The case is still being considered “active” and the army is carrying out searches concentrated off the west coast of Malta.

The two missing tourists are 14-year-old Dani Chmouni and his late father’s friend, Philippe Grimaud, 41.

They formed part of a group of five French tourists reported missing on May 6.

The bodies of the other three tourists were found two weeks ago.

Marie Grimaud, 38, Sandrine Godet, 36, and her husband Elias Chmouni, 49, died after dinner at a restaurant in Xlendi Bay to celebrate the latter’s birthday. They were wearing life jackets.

Mr Chmouni and Ms Godet were on a four-metre boat with the Grimauds and the boy when they went missing.

They were returning to Mr Chmouni’s yacht the El Pirata, berthed off Dwejra, after the dinner on land, but never made it due to rough sea.