Five bodies have been found inside the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily but one person remains missing, officials have said. Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, told the PA news agency that searches have finished for the day on Wednesday and will resume on Thursday morning. Advertisement He confirmed that of the five bodies found, only four had been recovered, and the whereabouts of the missing sixth person remains unknown.
Members of the public and media watch as a body bag is brought ashore (Jonathan Brady/PA) Technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among the people unaccounted for after the yacht, named Bayesian, sank at around 5am on Monday. Advertisement Identities of the recovered bodies have not been confirmed by authorities, despite local and international media reporting some had been identified. Advertisement Body bags were seen being taken to the port of Porticello on Wednesday afternoon, with the process of bringing the fifth body to shore being described by Mr Cocina as “ongoing”.
He said there will be an investigation in due course, but the priority is finding the missing. As the body bags were taken back to the port, dozens of emergency services staff were waiting, and one bag was seen being put in the back of an ambulance. Advertisement The missing also included Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, and Clifford Chance la.