Category: Capsizes

4 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Storm on Italian Lake

MILAN—Italian firefighters said Monday that they have recovered four bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden, violent storm. Divers searched overnight after a whirlwind overturned the boat carrying more than 20 tourists and crew Sunday evening. The final body was recovered early Monday. Firefighters said 19 people were…


Indonesia Rescuers Search for 26 After Boat Capsizes

MAKASSAR, Indonesia—Indonesian rescue teams were looking for 26 people missing on Saturday after a boat with 43 people on board capsized on off Sulawesi island, the search and rescue agency said. The motorboat that had left Paotere port in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi Province, on Thursday midnight was reported missing the next day when…


Boat Carrying 200 People Capsizes in Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria—A boat ferrying about 200 people capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday but the number of casualties remains unclear, a state spokesman said. The wooden boat capsized near Wara, a town on the shores of Kainji Lake, part of the Niger River, said Yahaya Sarki, a spokesman the governor of…