British tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among six people missing after a 180ft superyacht sunk off the coast in Sicily after it was struck by a tornado in the early hours this morning.
The 59-year-old University of Cambridge graduate is believed to be the owner of the Bayesian sailboat which was carrying 12 passengers and 10 crew when it capsized near Porticello. Six people, understood to be four Britons and two Americans, remain unaccounted for while 15 passengers were rescued by a nearby ship including a British mother and her one-year-old daughter.
Mr Lynch was acquitted of fraud charges in the US in June over the sale of the $11bn (£8.6bn) sale of his software firm to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
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