Intelligence agents among four killed when boat capsized on Italian lake

A helicopter searches for the missing after a tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy’s Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region (Vigili Del Fuoco via AP/PA)

Two Italian intelligence agents and one retired Israeli agent were among the four dead when a sudden storm sank a houseboat hired for a pleasure cruise this weekend on a northern Italian lake, authorities said on Tuesday.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of one Israeli citizen, saying he was a retiree from the Israeli security forces. It did not provide a name or age or give details on what he had done professionally.