On Sunday morning, four tourists were injured as giant cruise ship MSC Opera crashed into a dock and a tourist riverboat on the Giudecca Canal, one of Venice’s main waterways.
The ship’s owner, MSC Cruises, said the cruiser vessel was about to dock at a passenger terminal when it encountered a mechanical problem. Slowly but steadily, the ship crashed into the canal bank, as two towboats guiding it into Venice were unable to prevent the collision.