A tornado sank a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily causing 3 deaths and 4 people missing. What is known about the event
2024-08-21 20:06:33
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Emergency workers in southern Italy are still searching for four people missing after a tornado sank a luxury yacht on Monday morning.
Fifteen people were rescued from the wreckage, according to Italy's Coast Guard. One body was found on Monday and four more on Wednesday.
Two Americans and four Britons were among the six initially reported missing - including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and Chris Morvillo, a prominent lawyer.
The dead bodies of two of the six missing persons were found by palombari today at noon, bringing the number of dead to three.
They have not yet been identified.
The search operation has entered the third day and the search continues for the remaining four people who remain missing.
What happened?
A small waterspout - a kind of tornado - swept across the Mediterranean island early Monday, capsizing the sailboat amid pounding rain and strong storms.
The British-flagged yacht, named the Bayesian, anchored about half a mile off Porticello harbor on the northern coast of Sicily. The ship sank after its mast snapped in half in the storm, Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily's Civil Defense, told CNN on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses described raging storms and hurricane-like winds.
