Body of Mike Lynch found in sunken yacht, daughter missing

PORTICELLO, Italy:The body of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch was recovered Thursday from his sunken yacht off Sicily, as the search continued for the last of the six people missing -- his teenage daughter.

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 onland in Porticello, on the north shore of the Italian island near Palermo, Thursday 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 when it was struck by a waterspout -- akin to a mini-tornado. It sank within minutes. Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife, but the businessman and his daughter were among six people reported missing.