By\u00a0Giselda Vagnoni,\u00a0<\/b>Reuters<\/p>\n
Four bodies were found aboard the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to the wife of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, sources close to the rescue operation said.<\/p>\n
The identities of the victims were not immediately given by the authorities. Three of the bodies were brought ashore and taken to nearby hospitals for formal identification. The fourth corpse was being taken to land as evening set in.<\/p>\n
Britain’s\u00a0Daily Telegraph<\/i>\u00a0reported that two of the dead were Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter. Local authorities in Sicily declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht\u00a0was carrying 22 people<\/a>\u00a0and anchored off the port of Porticello when it was hit by a fierce, pre-dawn storm on Monday local time.<\/p>\n Two New Zealanders, UK-based lawyer Ayla Ronald and the yacht’s\u00a0captain James Cutfield<\/a>, were among those rescued.<\/p>\nBodies recovered from sunken superyacht\u00a0duration<\/span>6\u2032\u2009<\/span>:<\/span>43\u2033<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n