ROME: A gondola and a vaporetto waterbus collided yesterday on Venice’s Grand Canal, killing a 50-year-old German tourist and badly injuring a young girl, Italy’s Ansa news agency reported.
The accident happened around noon near the canal city’s famous Rialto Bridge as the public transport waterbus manoeuvred toward a stop, Ansa said.
The German man, identified as a criminal law professor, his wife and three children and the gondolier all fell into the water in the accident.
The injured girl was aboard the waterbus, which reportedly crushed the German man against the gondola.
AFP
