Divers search the wreckage of a superyacht owned by the family of a British tech mogul who sank on Monday off the coast of Sicily in southern Italy were working Wednesday to recover the remains of most of the six people missing from the crash, Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed to CBS News. Two bodies had been brought ashore at Porticello, near Palermo, and two more were being brought ashore.
The British newspaper Telegraph reported that the bodies of Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneurand his 18-year-old daughter were among the remains recovered Wednesday, but the chief of civil defense would not confirm that report to CBS News.
Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, were left missing after the ship sank in a violent storm early Monday morning. One man, the Bayesian superyacht’s chef, was found dead shortly after the boat capsized.
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Fifteen passengers and crew managed to escape the accident, including Lynch’s wife, who owned the vessel.
Along with Lynch and his daughter Hannah, the tech mogul’s US attorney Chris Morvillo, a former assistant district attorney in New York, his wife Neda and British banker Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, were also missing.
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Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in the United States that could have landed him in prison for decades. Lynch’s co-defendant in that fraud case, who was also acquitted, died on Saturday after being hit by a car while out jogging in England.
This development story will be updated.