The Italian authorities have recovered this Thursday morning A fifth corpse from the interior of the sailboat that sank on Monday off the coast of Sicily (south) and are now trying to find the last of the six missing in the tragedy.

Firefighters’ divers have managed to extract the body of the fifth of the six missing from the water, according to sources of the operation confirmed to Efe, and have transferred it to the port of the town of Porticello. This victim had already been located yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, inside the remains of the boat, which lies at a depth of 50 meterson the Sicilian seabed, but could not be recovered as night fell and the search was suspended.

Throughout the day on Wednesday, the ship was brought ashore The bodies of four of the six missing and the Italian authorities have not yet released their identificationThe missing are British IT magnate Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy; and the businessman’s lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda.

Under investigation

The ‘Bayesian’ yacht‘, flying the British flag, sank on Monday night off the coast of the town of Porticello in the midst of a strong storm, when there were 22 people inside, 12 passengers and ten crew membersThe provisional death toll now stands at six, as a man was found dead on Monday. to the ship’s cook, Recaldo ThomasCanadian born on the island of Antigua.

On the other hand, 15 people survived. The search and recovery is hampered by depth and position the yacht was left 50 metres above the Sicilian seabed, but also because of the limited autonomy of the divers, who have been supported since yesterday by an underwater robot.

Meanwhile, the Termini-Imerese Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation to clarify the disaster and questioned the captain of the sailboat, James Catfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander and one of the survivors, for more than two hours in a local hotel.