British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter are missing after a British-flagged superyacht sank in bad weather off the coast of Sicily, sources have said.
Mr Lynch and his daughter, Hannah, are among six people missing after the sailboat, named Bayesian, sank in the early hours of Monday near the Sicilian capital Palermo, with 22 foreign tourists on board.
The director general of Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed the 18-year-old’s disappearance to BBC.
Four Britons and a child are reportedly among the missing, while one person has died, and a further 15 people, including another child, haveoufire rescue service, said eight people are in hospital. Prosecutors in the nearby town of Termini Imerese have opened an investigation into the incident.u
Source: The Independent
