UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing in Sicily yacht sinking

One man dead and six people missing including Lynch and his daughter after superyacht carrying 22 sank in storm

• Who is Mike Lynch, the tech boss missing in yacht sinking?

The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is missing after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm.

The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre sailboat, was carrying 22 people and anchored just off shore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by a tornado in the early hours, the Italian coastguard said in a statement.