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Tourist boat capsized in Italy – reports: one dead
Rescue workers search for missing people by helicopter after a tourist boat capsized on Italy’s Lake Maggiore. photo
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What began as a holiday activity ends in tragedy: during a storm, a sailboat rented by tourists capsizes. Media reports of a dead man.
Several people have been reported missing in a boat accident on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. As the Italian news agencies Ansa and Adnkronos reported, one person died in the incident on Sunday evening. The fire brigade announced on Twitter that 19 people had been saved.
The forces continued to search for missing persons on water and from the air by helicopter. According to media reports, five people came to a clinic, and the rest were treated on site.
The boat capsized during a storm in the evening at the southern end of the lake near the town of Lisanza, which is on the Lombardy side of the lake. According to the President of the Region of Lombardy Attilio Fontana, a strong storm led to the accident. The 16-meter-long sailboat had been rented by tourists, he wrote on Facebook.