The search is resuming for the sixth person missing after a superyacht sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily following the discovery of five bodies inside the wreck.

Six people, including tech tycoon Mike Lynch, were unaccounted for after the £30million vessel, Bayesian, sank in a violent storm at about 5am on Monday (August 19).

Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily's civil protection agency, confirmed that of the five bodies found on Wednesday (August 21), only four had been recovered, with the whereabouts of the missing sixth person still unknown.

Identities of the recovered bodies have not been officially confirmed by authorities, but English banker Jonathan Bloomer and American lawyer Chris Morvillo were reportedly among the bodies recovered by rescuers. The bodies of Mr Lynch and his daughter Hannah are also believed to be among those retrieved from the sunken vessel.

Body bags were seen being carried to the port of Porticello on Wednesday afternoon, with the process of bringing the fifth body to shore being described by Mr Cocina as "ongoing".

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