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Initial results of autopsies conducted on four of the people who died on board the Bayesian superyacht revealed the victims may have died of suffocation as opposed to drowning.

Italy on Monday morning, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and chairman of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer, are presumed to be dead. Italian coast guard officials said on Tuesday that Lynch and Bloomer were among the six people still not found. The other individuals include Hannah, Bloomer's 18-year-old daughter, Clifford Chance attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife Judy, and Bloomer's wife Neda. On Monday, a storm formed around the 184-foot British-flagged yacht The Bayesian, which was moored approximately half a mile offshore. According to civil protection officials, they think the ship was hit by a waterspout, a tornado, that crossed the water and swiftly sank the yacht. On the Giornale di Sicilia website, grainy footage from shore-based closed-circuit cameras depicted the Bayesian's lit 246-foot mast enduring the storm before it vanished within a minute.

Jonathan Bloomer, Chairman of Morgan Stanley International, is reported missing following the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian. Also missing are Mike Lynch, the yacht's owner, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance. Italian authorities confirm their disappearance, as reported by The Times. The Bayesian, a 56-meter superyacht, sank early Monday morning off the coast of Sicily. The vessel, which had been anchored near Porticello, was struck by a tornado. Initial assessments suggest that the yacht's large aluminum mast may have contributed to its instability and subsequent sinking, as per the reports of Yahoo news.

LONDON — British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud charges in June in a landmark trial over allegations made by Hewlett Packard that he had artificially inflated the value of his company when he sold it to the U.S. enterprise tech giant for $11.7 billion in 2011.