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At least one man was killed and six people were missing Monday after a luxury superyacht sank near the Sicilian capital of Palermo during a violent storm, Italian officials said. The 184-ft sailboat with 22 people on board “suddenly sank” at around 5 a.m. local time “probably due to the terrible weather conditions,” the City Council of Bagheria said in a statement. A strong storm and a tornado hit the area and the coast around an hour earlier, it added.
In a separate statement, Italy’s Fire Department said that “divers, a motorboat and a helicopter,” had been deployed to help with the search. The wreck was at a depth of around 165-ft, the statement said, Divers from the Sicilian city of Sassari and Naples, a city on the Italian mainland, were “arriving on site to search inside the sunken vessel,” it added.
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