Divers searching for six people missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, pulled four bodies from the wreck and reportedly found a fifth.
The grim development, after three days of searches since the “Bayesian” went down early on Monday morning, brings the death toll to six – with one person still missing.
There was no official identification of the bodies but Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah are among those missing since the yacht was scuppered in a storm off the Italian island.
The 56-metre (185 feet) British-flagged sailing boat had been anchored some 700 metres off Porticello, east of Palermo, when it was struck by a waterspout – akin to a mini-tornado. It sank within minutes.
Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife and a woman with a one-year-old baby.
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