Add The New York Post on Google A recently married groom has died and his pregnant wife is missing after their small fishing boat collided with a water taxi in Venice, Italy.
Sean Michieli, 25, died Saturday just three months after marrying his 26-year-old Brazilian sweetheart, Gabriela Querino, the Italian outlet L’Unione Sarda reported.
The pair were out on a lagoon looking for bait when their boat collided with a water taxi, throwing them both into the water and sinking their boat.
Gabriella Querino is missing while her fisherman husband Sean Michieli died following a boat crash in Venice. JamPress Michieli was pulled from the water with serious injuries, but later succumbed to his injuries — nine years after his uncle, Endrius, died in a similar boating tragedy.
His bride — who moved to Italy two years ago and was pregnant with their first child — was never found and remains missing. Rescue efforts have been complicated by muddy waters and high tides.
“I just want my daughter back alive,” her mom, Gisele Elorriaga, told Brazilian outlet Globo.
The loved-up couple had been married for just three months. JamPress It’s not known what caused the collision — with darkness and fog being investigated as potential causes — but Venice prosecutors have opened a nautical homicide investigation.
Luca Zaia, president of the Regional Council of Veneto, called it “an immense tragedy for a family that was just beginning to build their future.”
