Nobody injured in incident which may have been caused by passengers leaning to one side for a selfie.
A group of tourists travelling in a gondola in Venice ended up in the waters of a canal, along with the gondolier, after the boat capsized suddenly on Sunday morning.
There was nobody injured in the incident which occurred in the Rio dei Greci canal, in the Castello district, along a narrow stretch of water that leaves little room for manoeuvre.
The exact cause of the accident was unclear however initial reports suggest the boat became unbalanced and capsized due to the sudden movement of the passengers, perhaps while taking selfies.
The tourists managed to get out of the canal by clinging to window grates and moored boats and reaching the small bridge located nearby with the help of bystanders.
A similar incident took place in Venice in November 2023 when tourists disobeyed a gondolier’s instructions and continued to stand up and move around the gondola taking selfies.
Predictably, when almost all the passengers’ weight ended up on one side of the gondola, the unbalanced boat flipped over, tipping its occupants into the cold water.
