Mike Lynch and six others died after their at-anchor vessel sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday
Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of a yacht off the coast of Sicily earlier this week, in which seven people died, including British tech mogul Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter.
The probe was announced on Saturday by the local prosecutor’s office in the Palermo metropolitan area on the island.
A case has been opened “against unknown persons for negligent shipwreck and manslaughter,” the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Raffaele Cammarano, told a press conference, as quoted by Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
The 56-meter-long British-flagged superyacht named ‘Bayesian,’ which had 22 people aboard, had been moored less than a kilometer off the coast of Sicily on Monday when it was hit by what is believed to be a tornado or waterspout.