Sicily divers seek final shipwreck missing after Lynch’s body found

AFP | Sicily

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The body of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch was recovered yesterday from his sunken yacht off Sicily, as the search continued for the last of the six people missing. Specialist divers were still looking for a missing woman, a coastguard official told AFP, with a source close to the investigation having earlier indicated Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah had yet to be found.

On Wednesday they pulled up four bodies from the wreck of the “Bayesian”, while another was brought to shore in Porticello, on the north of the Italian island near Palermo, yesterday morning.

The latest grim discovery brings the death toll to six, after the body of a man believed to be the yacht’s chef was found shortly after the ship went down in a storm before dawn on Monday. The 56-metre (185 feet) British-flagged sailing boat had been anchored some 700 metres off Porticello, near Palermo on the north of the Italian island, when it was struck by a waterspout akin to a mini-tornado.