Secretary General of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdulrahman bin Hamad al-Atiyyah has offered condolences to King Hamad al-Khalifa of Bahrain on victims of a tourist ship which capsized Thursday night off the Bahraini coast of Muharraq. Al-Atiyyah offered his condolences during a telephone call to Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad al-Khalifa, the Bahraini foreign minister, on Friday.