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VIOLENT WINDS. Italian firefighters and health workers carry a body bag with a victim after a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on Monday. One person was killed and rescuers were searching for six others missing after a luxury superyacht called ‘The Bayesian’ with 22 people aboard majority of those were British, sank during a sudden storm off the coast of Italy’s Sicily, officials said.
Firefighter divers trained to work in tight spaces were flown in from Rome and Sardinia late Monday, but a first search of the wreck some 50 metres below the sea surface failed. “It was terrible. The boat was hit by really strong wind and shortly after it went down,” a British survivor named as Charlotte Golunski told ANSA news agency.
Most of those aboard were British, and the passengers were guests of Lynch, celebrating his recent acquittal in a massive fraud case, according to Italian media.
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