Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, is reportedly among six people missing after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.
The director general of Sicily's civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, confirmed the teen was missing as a desperate search for those onboard the ship continues.The Foreign Office has said it is supporting "a number of British nationals and their families."Four British tourists are feared dead after the £14million superyacht was hit by a tornado.Mike Lynch was acquitted in the US earlier this year in a multi-billion pound fraud case.
The child's mother, Charlotte, said her daughter is now being treated in the Di Cristina hospital in Palermo.Recounting how she protected her baby as the vessel sunk, Charlotte said: “I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning.“It was all dark. In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.
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