Instructor drowns after boat capsizes on lake
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Published: 10 Mar, 2015 CET.
Updated: Tue 10 Mar 2015 21:14 CET
An investigation is under way into the death of a 67-year-old sailing instructor after a sailboat capsized on Tuesday on Lake Lucerne.
The boat, carrying the instructor and a 32-year-old student, keeled over before 3pm on the Lake Uri finger of the lake in central Switzerland, Uri cantonal police said.
A nearby worker noticed the men in the water and attempted to rescue them.
Efforts to resuscitate the instructor failed.
He died in the port at Flüelen, the SDA news agency reported.
The injured student was transported to hospital by ambulance, police said.
The exact circumstances of the accident are the subject of ongoing investigations.
But a police spokesman told SDA that at the time strong winds were blowing and that there were white caps on the lake.
The incident occurred in the eastern part of the lake that straddles four cantons.
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The boat, carrying the instructor and a 32-year-old student, keeled over before 3pm on the Lake Uri finger of the lake in central Switzerland, Uri cantonal police said.
A nearby worker noticed the men in the water and attempted to rescue them.
Efforts to resuscitate the instructor failed.
He died in the port at Flüelen, the SDA news agency reported.
The injured student was transported to hospital by ambulance, police said.
The exact circumstances of the accident are the subject of ongoing investigations.
But a police spokesman told SDA that at the time strong winds were blowing and that there were white caps on the lake.
The incident occurred in the eastern part of the lake that straddles four cantons.
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