The incident occurred near Palermo, on the island of Sicily, and 15 people have already been rescued by the Italian coastguard.
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At least One person died and six are missing after a sailboat sank early this Monday morning near Palermoin the island of Sicily, Italy, announced the Italian coast guard, after reporting the rescue of 15 people.
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He British tycoon of technology Mike Lynch is among those missing in the shipwreck of a luxury sailboat occurred this Monday morning near Palermoin the Italian island of Sicilyaccording to a source close to the rescue operations.
The wife of Lynch, Angela Bacareswas rescued, the same source said. Among the twelve passengers and ten crew members on board the ship, several remain missing, according to Italian media.
The body of one of the missing was found in the sailboat wrecklocated at a depth of 50 meters, and was recovered. Eight shipwrecked people were taken to local hospitals.
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Charlottea 35-year-old British passenger, said that lost her one-year-old daughter “for two seconds” in the water before retrieving it.
“I immediately hugged her in the middle of the waves. Many people were screaming. Fortunately, the lifeboat was inflated and 11 of us climbed aboard.”he told the Ansa agency.
Most of the survivors are Britishalthough there are also two Franco-British, a Sri Lankan, a New Zealander and an Irishman, the media reported.
The sailboat, according to the media, sank after passing through a waterspout, a phenomenon that is increasingly observed in Europe in recent years.
Source: Ambito
