Porticello: Four bodies were found aboard the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to the wife of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, sources close to the rescue operation said. The identities of the victims recovered on Wednesday (Italy time) were not immediately given by the authorities. Three of the bodies were brought ashore and taken to nearby hospitals for formal identification.
The fourth corpse was being taken to land as evening set in. Italian Firefighters scuba divers bring ashore in a blue bag the body of one of the victims of the UK flag vessel Bayesian. Credit: AP An additional body has been located in the shipwreck, the Washington Post reported.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that two of the dead were Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter. Local authorities in Sicily declined to comment on the report. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht was carrying 22 people and anchored off the port of Porticello when it was hit by a fierce, pre-dawn storm on Monday.
Lynch, 59, was one of the UK’s best-known tech entrepreneurs and had invited friends to join him on the yacht to celebrate his recent acquittal in a U.S. fraud trial.
Besides Lynch and his daughter, the other people unaccounted for after the disaster were Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo. Italian Coast Guard officials bring ashore in a bag the body of one of the victims of the U.