A sailing ship (yacht) with people on board was wrecked off the coast of Sicily as a result of strong winds.
Among the missing, the media call “British Bill Gates” – millionaire Michael Lynch.
According to them, his daughter Hannah and the yacht’s chef, Ricardo Thomas, were also missing.
The general director of the Sicilian civil defense service, Salvatore Cocina, told the media about this.
The names of the other three missing passengers on the yacht have not yet been publicly released.
Search and rescue efforts were expected to continue throughout the night, Kochina said. They involve specialists who arrived from Rome.
As the portal “HERE NEWS”, the 56-meter sailing ship Bayesian sank near the Sicilian city of Palermo on the morning of August 19.
Journalists say the cause of the crash was a hurricane.
According to their information, the yacht, which belonged to the family of a millionaire, was flying the British flag.
There were 22 people on board (12 guests and 10 crew members).
Coast guards rescued 15 people, including a one-year-old child who was taken to the Palermo Children’s Hospital.
At the crash site, divers found the body of one of the ship’s passengers. Journalists learned that the deceased was one of the cooks.
Six citizens, including four Britons, are still missing.
It is known that the sunken yacht is located at a depth of 49 meters at a distance of about 800 meters from the shore.
