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Tourist drowns in Lake Geneva during storm

The storm also damaged some of the 465 boats partaking in the Bol d'Or race, an annual regatta taking place on Lake Geneva. [AFP]

A woman has drowned in Lake Geneva when her sightseeing boat sank as a violent storm battered parts of Switzerland on Saturday, police said.

A man who was in the same boat was able to swim to another vessel from where he fired "two flares", Joanna Matta, police spokeswoman for the canton (region) of Geneva, told AFP.

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