An Italian Coast Guard vessel and RIB seek for the luxurious yacht Bayes that sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on Thursday, August 22, 2024.
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Italian prosecutors have launched a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech large Mike Lynch and 6 different folks. Luxury yacht sinks This week in Sicily.
The Termini Imerese prosecutor’s workplace, led by Ambrogio Cartosio, introduced the investigation, saying it didn’t goal any particular person.
Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah was among the many victims when the household’s 56-meter (184-foot) boat Bayes crashed close to Porticello, close to Palermo on Monday. capsized in a violent predawn storm.
Fifteen folks survived, together with Lynch’s spouse (whose firm owned the Bayes) and the yacht’s captain.
Captain James Cutfield and different survivors have been questioned by the Coast Guard on behalf of prosecutors. None of them have publicly commented on how the ship sank.
Hannah Lynch’s physique was found Friday by divers who had spent the previous 5 days looking out the underwater vessel. 5 different lifeless passengers have been discovered on Wednesday and Thursday, whereas the physique of the one lifeless crew member, the ship’s cook dinner Reccardo Tomas, was discovered on Monday.
The sinking baffled naval consultants, who stated a ship just like the Bayes, constructed by high-end Italian yacht builder Perini, ought to have been in a position to stand up to the storm and mustn’t have sunk so shortly anyway.
