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Officials probe deaths of young newlyweds who died in Venice water taxi crash
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Key Points:
- Newlyweds Gabriella Querino, 26, and Sean Michieli, 25, died in a collision between their boat and a 5-ton water taxi in Venice, just three months after their wedding.
- The couple was collecting bait for Michieli's clam fishing work when their boat sank after the collision; Querino's body was recovered, and Michieli was declared brain-dead following severe injuries.
- Querino, originally from Brazil, had recently moved to Italy and was preparing to join her husband in the fishing industry; the couple was expecting their first child.
- The water taxi driver is under investigation for nautical homicide as authorities seek to determine the cause of the crash.
- This accident adds to a recent series of fatal boating incidents worldwide, including a ferry sinking in Vanuatu last week.
