Spy for Israel's secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police
- Thread starter GRiM
- Start date
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8377746.stm said:
Very telling indeed! I wonder if this was a "training exercise" at all!
Something sounds fishy at the recent Lake Como catastrophe.
comments
www.bbc.com
Two Italian intelligence agents and a retired Israeli security forces member were among four victims of Sunday's boating disaster on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, local officials say.
They named the Italians as Claudio Alonzi, 62, and Tiziana Barnobi, 53. The Israeli was identified as Shimoni Erez, 50.
Anya Bozhkova, the 50-year-old Russian wife of the boat's captain, also died.
The vessel with more than 20 tourists and crew sank in strong winds.
According to Italian news outlets, the boat had been carrying about 25 people who were celebrating a birthday when a storm developed over the lake, later turning into a "small hurricane".
The 16m (52ft) long boat capsized and sank on Sunday evening between the towns of Sesto Calende and Arona.
Everyone onboard went into the water, but many of the passengers swam ashore or were rescued by other boats.
Rescue divers and a helicopter scrambled to help with the search at the lake's southern end, and several ambulances and an air ambulance attended the scene.
A video shared by firefighters showed chairs and other debris floating in choppy waters.
Five people were taken to hospital.
Lake Maggiore - on the south side of the Alps - is shared by Italy and Switzerland and is a popular destination for tourists.
The area has recently seen poor weather, with Italy's meteorological service issuing thunderstorm warnings.
comments
Italy: Agents die when boat capsizes on Lake Maggiore
Two Italian intelligence agents and a former member of Israel's security forces are among four victims.
www.bbc.com
They named the Italians as Claudio Alonzi, 62, and Tiziana Barnobi, 53. The Israeli was identified as Shimoni Erez, 50.
Anya Bozhkova, the 50-year-old Russian wife of the boat's captain, also died.
The vessel with more than 20 tourists and crew sank in strong winds.
According to Italian news outlets, the boat had been carrying about 25 people who were celebrating a birthday when a storm developed over the lake, later turning into a "small hurricane".
The 16m (52ft) long boat capsized and sank on Sunday evening between the towns of Sesto Calende and Arona.
Everyone onboard went into the water, but many of the passengers swam ashore or were rescued by other boats.
Rescue divers and a helicopter scrambled to help with the search at the lake's southern end, and several ambulances and an air ambulance attended the scene.
A video shared by firefighters showed chairs and other debris floating in choppy waters.
Five people were taken to hospital.
Lake Maggiore - on the south side of the Alps - is shared by Italy and Switzerland and is a popular destination for tourists.
The area has recently seen poor weather, with Italy's meteorological service issuing thunderstorm warnings.
Accident on Lake Maggiore, where a boat sailing near the town of Lisanza capsized in the late afternoon of Sunday 28 May due to bad weather: there were 25 people on board the house boat, who were celebrating a birthday.
The final toll is 4 dead, two men and two women: among them a fifty-year-old Israeli citizen and Anna Bozhkova, wife of the boat commander, who survived. The investigations of the investigators are underway to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident.
Firefighters rushed to the scene aquatic rescueThe air rescuers of the Lombardy flight department and the nucleus divers of Milan, in addition to 6 ambulances4 medical cars it’s a air ambulance from Como.
The mayor of Sesto Calende to Fanpage.it: “In bad weather, the lake can be dangerous”
Interviewed by Fanpage.itthe mayor of Sesto Calende (Varese) John Buzzi expressed its condolences for the victims of yesterday’s accident, Sunday 28 May, in the waters of Lake Maggiore. The mayor reiterated that “no specific bad weather alert” had been launched, but only the “generic” ones for the bad weather which were already in force in recent days.
The first rescuer in Lake Maggiore: “I caught a man a meter under water”
Matteo Dellavedova he was on a boat trip with seven other people on Lake Maggiore. At one point, around 7 pm on Sunday 28 May, “a water bomb“. TO LaPresse he said he “saw what looked like a buoy instead it was a bald gentleman, next to him pieces of wood in the middle of the lake, 20 people screaming”. Then, with the help of some other friends who were traveling in another boat, “we loaded some ourselves and another friend gave us a hand and uploaded others,” recalls Dellavedova.
According to the accounts of some witnesses, the storm and the whirlwind struck suddenly. In a few minutes they fell 50mm of water. The Gooduria was now lost and the 25 people on board were looking for a way to save themselves. “I caught one a meter below, I jumped into the water and pulled it out“, Dellavedova recalls, “I gave him CPR and brought him back to life. Without us there would have been 25 victims“.
The deputy mayor of Sesto Calende to Fanpage.it: “They thought they were swans, but they were people”
Edoardo Favaron, deputy mayor of Sesto Calende
Several hours after the discovery of the body of the fourth victim of the capsizing of the boat on Lake Maggiore, an attempt is made to reconstruct the moments in which the tornado he threw the 25 occupants of the boat into the water. “No one could have imagined such a thing”, the deputy mayor of Sesto Calende Edoardo Favaron told Fanapage.it“it was a beautiful daywe could go out on boats, then it started to rain”.
According to initial information, 50 millimeters of water would have fallen in about 20 minutes. The first to intervene to rescue the passengers in the water were the occupants of another passing boat: “They thought they were swans, ducks, but instead they were people”, said Favaron, “they retrieved and brought to shore“. The alarm, however, had already gone off. Someone would have witnessed the scene from the ground, then calling for help that arrived immediately after.
Anna Bozhkova’s little dog died, he too was on board the sunken boat
Not just three tourists and Anna Bozhkova, wife of the commander. Among the victims of the sinking of the Gooduria there is also the 50-year-old dog of Russian origins. The woman, as far as is known at the moment, lived inside the house boat with the owner of the boat, who is currently hospitalized.
Among the victims, a 50-year-old Israeli: this was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem
The foreign ministry in Jerusalem confirmed that among the four victims of the accident on Lake Maggiore there is also a Israeli citizen. This is a 50 year old man. “The family has been informed“, the ministry added in the statement.
One of the victims is Anna Bozhkova, wife of the captain of the overturned boat
Anna Bozhkova he is one of the four victims of yesterday’s accident on Lake Maggiore. The 53-year-old of Russian origin was the wife of the captain and owner of the Gooduria, the boat that capsized due to a whirlwind.
As learned from Fanpage.itthe couple used to rent your own house boat to tourists starting from the shores of Sesto Calende where the two lived. The husband, Claudius Carminatiis now hospitalized in yellow code, of medium severity.
Who are the 4 victims of the capsizing of the boat on Lake Maggiore
Operations continue recognition of the 4 victims of the Sunday afternoon accident on Lake Maggiore. One of these is the commander’s wife of the sunken vessel, one 50-year-old of Russian descent but resident of Varesotto. The other three would be tourists: a 54 year old of Israeli nationalitya 50 years old originally from Frosinone it’s a 53-year-old woman originally from
Trieste.
The first two bodies were found in the late evening on Sunday. The third, however, was carried ashore by the fire brigade dinghy at dawn on Monday 29 May. The last one was recovered by the carabinieri divers during the morning about 25 meters from the wreck.
The victims were three tourists and the boat owner’s wife
The victims of last night’s accident they are four. According to initial information, they would be two men and two women. Three of them were tourists who were part of the group that had rented the boat to celebrate a birthday on the waters of Lake Maggiore. The fourth, however, would be the owner’s wife of the vessel.
A passing vessel was the first to rescue people in the water
Was another vessel to raise the first alarm. Passing on the waters of Lake Maggiore, the people on board would have seen men and women who are they splashed in the water among the debris and pieces of wood. Many of the sunken houseboat’s 25 occupants were rescued by other passing boats, while a few managed to swim to shore despite the freezing water. The first interventions, on the other hand, would have started from the Marina di Lisanza shipyard, a hamlet of Sesto Calende.
The mayor of Sesto Calende: “The bad weather alarm had not been raised”
Having completed the search for the missing, we are now trying to reconstruct what happened on the afternoon of Sunday 28 May. Bad weather began to hit the Lake Maggiore area around 5pm, but the boat carrying 25 people on board including tourists and crew members sunk shortly after 7pm in front of the waters of Sesto Calende. The carabinieri have begun to collect the first testimonies of the survivors to understand if and what was not done correctly. The mayor of the municipality of Varese, John Buzzisaid a Fanpage.it that a specific severe weather alert had not been given.
The last missing person has also been found: there are 4 victims
Was found the body of the last missing person. The Carabinieri underwater corps found him about 25 meters away from the wreck of the boat in Lake Maggiore. The death toll so it rises to 4.
The number of victims rises to 3, still looking for the last missing person
Has risen to 3 the provisional death toll of yesterday’s accident on the waters of Lake Maggiore. However, the searches continue of the last missing who was on board the tourist boat that sank in the storm. Five people have already been transported to hospital, while the other 15 have been visited on the spot and not hospitalised. The wreck was identified at a depth of 16 meters.
The search for the missing continues: 2 people are still missing
The wreck of the boat in the waters of Lake Maggiore
The wreck of the overturned boat by bad weather it was intercepted by divers of the fire brigade at 16 meters deep. In the meantime they continue the search for the 2 missing personseven if the dark makes operations more difficult.
There is a second victim: still 2 missing
The count of victims is updated after the capsizing of the boat in the waters of Lake Maggiore: 2 are dead, and 2 more are missing. The first confirmed victim is a 53 year old man.
Most of the passengers survived by swimming
Many passengers, after the capsize of the tourist boathave escaped the tragedy swimming: 14 people managed to get to safety moving to the shore and reaching with armfuls the Piccalunga beach, while 5 others have been rescued from passing vessels.
Search operations by the Fire Brigade: 19 people rescue
The incident during a birthday party
According to the first reconstructions, on board the overturned boat there would have been a party made up of Italians and foreigners intent on celebrate a birthday. For the occasion, the 23 people (plus 2 crew) were on a sightseeing tour.
The video after the capsize of the boat: pieces of the boat floating in the water
The words of Attilio Fontana: “I am following the search for the missing with apprehension
As far as we know, the lifeless body of the 53-year-old victim it was recovered by a diver after the helicopter spotted a person in the water.
“I follow don't apprehend the updates of the rescue teams on site which I thank”, the words of the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana. Meanwhile, the search for the three missing persons continues, but the dark makes operations very difficult.
Bad weather suddenly hit Lombard
The foreign party on board the boat was surprised by the bad weather that hit the whole of Northern Lombardy in the evening: a condition that also had repercussions on the air traffic of the nearby airport Malpensa where many flights were grounded.
The crew of a passing boat raised the alarm
According to the first reconstructions, the people on board belonged to one group of English tourists who had rented the vehicle for a party. To notice the castaways in the water, in the midst of what remained of the boat, they would have been the occupants of another passing vessel.
The conditions of the passengers rescued
Fourteen of the survivors swam in to Piccaluga beach. Five more were recovered by the Fire Brigade. Of the passengers, 15 were seen and discharged without prognosis, three were hospitalized in hospital in Angera in green codee: one in Gallarate in yellow code and one in Varese, always in yellow code.
The first victim is a 53-year-old man
They register for the moment yet 3 missing and one deadafter overthrow of the tourist boat that this afternoon sailed on the waters of the Lake Maggiore at the height of Lisanza. It would be a 53 year old man.
Accident on Lake Maggiore, house boat capsizes due to bad weather: 4 missing
XPan
The Living Force
Lake Maggiore, not Lake Como.
Speaking of the "accident" - here an Italian photographer made a time lapse video (see link below) of the storm cloud which developed above the lake. It is hard to tell from the video, if the weather conditions really were enough to make a boat just vanish within less than 30 seconds...
The video in the link is much better, than the one referred to via Twitter, because it is more fluid, showing finer details as well all frames, which the one at twitter doesn't.
video.repubblica.it
Address to the video file itself
Speaking of the "accident" - here an Italian photographer made a time lapse video (see link below) of the storm cloud which developed above the lake. It is hard to tell from the video, if the weather conditions really were enough to make a boat just vanish within less than 30 seconds...
The video in the link is much better, than the one referred to via Twitter, because it is more fluid, showing finer details as well all frames, which the one at twitter doesn't.
Lago Maggiore, il 'downburst' che ha causato il naufragio catturato da un fotografo: il timelapse
Un timelapse di 1800 scatti, un fotogramma ogni tre secondi. Così, Lorenzo Alberganti, fotografo amatoriale, ha catturato il 'downburst' che ha causato la tragedia sul Lago Maggiore, dove quattro persone sono morte per il ribaltamento di una house-boat. 'Ero sul lungolago di Intra, la sponda...
video.repubblica.it
Address to the video file itself
