08/19/2024

Mike Lynch Missing after Luxury Super-yacht Sinks in Storm off Sicily

Lynch is a British tech giant

British tech giant Mike Lynch, his lawyer and four others are among those missing after their luxury super-yacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday, Italy's civil protection and authorities said. Lynch's wife and 14 other people survived.

Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial, was among the six people who remain unaccounted for after their chartered sailboat sank off Porticello, when a tornado over the water known as a waterspout struck the area overnight, said Salvo Cocina of Sicily's civil protection agency.

One body has been recovered, and police divers were trying to reach the hull of the ship, which was resting at a depth of 163 feet off Porticello, near Palermo, where it had been anchored.

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