The group aboard the ship that sank off the coast of Mayor in northern Italy on Sunday, killing four people, included agents of the Israeli and Italian secret services.
A ship carrying Italian and foreign tourists sank in northern Italy on Sunday. Four people were killed and about 20 passengers were pulled from the water or managed to swim to shore.
In a statement, Alfredo Mantovano, from the Italian Information Security Services, lamented today the death of Claudio Alonzi, 62, and Tiziana Barboni, 53, both members of the Italian secret services who were in the ship “to commemorate the anniversary of one of the members of the group.
Also killed in the sinking was Israeli Shimoni Erez, 50, a retired Mossad agent, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
The fourth victim is Anya Bozhkova, a Russian citizen and wife of the owner of the boat, who rented it out to tourists.
The remaining passengers on board the ship were also Italian and Israeli and there were certainly other members of the secret services, according to local media.
The boat, in which a group of 22 people and the two crew members were traveling, sank in the Lisanza and Dormelletto region, in the Lombardy region, due to a strong storm that caused it to capsize and sink.
Most of the people managed to swim to shore between Lisanza and Piccaluga, while others were rescued by boats in the area.
According to the Italian media that reconstructed the event, after the accident it began to be suspected that there were more secret service agents on the boat.
The authorities are investigating the causes of the accident, since the boat was carrying more than 20 people and had a capacity for only 15 and also the reason why they did not return to land when the storm approached.
Source: TSF
