Yacht crash near Sicily: rescuers found bodies of all victims, search operation completed
Kyiv • UNN
Italian divers have found the body of 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, completing the search operation. The Bayesian yacht accident killed 7 people, including billionaire Mike Lynch, and rescued 15 people.
On Friday, August 23, Italian divers recovered the body of Hannah, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who drowned on a yacht with her father. This was reported by Reuters, UNN.
Details
The publication notes that Hannah was the last person to go missing after her family's yacht sank this week. Thus, the rescue and search operation has been completed.
As a result, seven people died in the incident, including billionaire Mike Lynch himself. They also managed to rescue 15 people, including Lynch's wife and the captain of the yacht.
Reuters adds that with the rescue operation complete, attention has shifted to the official investigation of the crash.
The Termini Imerese prosecutor's office, headed by Ambrogio Cartosio, is considering possible charges of negligent wreck and multiple murder
It is noted that law enforcement officers interrogated the captain of the yacht and the rest of the rescued people - none of them publicly commented on how the ship sank.
Addendum
Hannah Lynch's body was discovered on Friday by divers who had been clearing the flooded ship for the past five days.
The five other dead passengers were found on Wednesday and Thursday, and the body of the only crew member to die, chef Recaldo Thomas, was found on Monday.
Recall
The Bayesian, a 56-meter British-flagged yacht, sank on Sunday night off the coast of Porticello, a coastal town about 15 kilometers east of Palermo. The yacht was carrying twelve passengers and ten crew members, mostly British.
