Two bodies retrieved from Mike Lynch's sunken yacht brought to land
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Scuba divers scouring the wreck of British tech magnate Mike Lynch's family yacht, which sank off Sicily two days ago, have found two bodies inside it, a source close to rescue operations said on Wednesday.
Two bodies found aboard the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to British tech magnate Mike Lynch's family were brought to land on Wednesday, while two more corpses have been located in the capsized vessel, according to sources.
Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, are still unaccounted for after the British-flagged Bayesian sank early on Monday off Sicily after it was hit by a ferocious storm.
The identities of the victims found on Wednesday were not immediately given. One of the bodies belonged to a heavily built man, a source close to rescue operations said, while the second was that of a woman, Italian news agency Adnkronos said.
Two black body bags were brought into the harbor of Porticello near Palermo aboard a Fire Brigades boat and lifted up onto the quayside.
Divers and specialist rescuers have been searching inside the hull of the sunken yacht since Monday. The victims are believed to be trapped in cabins, which have proved extremely hard to get to, with divers only able to stay in the vessel for eight-10 minutes before having to re-surface.
Fifteen people managed to escape the yacht before it capsized in the pre-dawn tempest, while the body of the onboard chef, Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, was found near the wreck hours after the disaster.
That left six passengers missing - Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo.
