Sicily yacht sinking: Five bodies found on sunken luxury yacht as one person remains missing

Rescue officials have been looking for six missing people, including tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International

The fire service dive team in Porticello, Sicily, on the third day of the search for six tourists missing after the luxury yacht sank in a storm on Monday. Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Five bodies have been found inside the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily but one person remains missing, officials have said.

Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, told the PA news agency that searches have finished for the day on Wednesday and will resume on Thursday morning.