The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told the Guardian this morning that the fifth body inside the yacht has been successfully recovered and transported to Porticello’s pier.
Dive teams from the fire brigade have now resumed the search for the final missing body within the Bayesian vessel this morning.
Italian media, quoting sources from the divers, confirmed the identification of Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, as well as Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy Bloomer among the retrieved victims on Wednesday.
The bodies of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah are still unaccounted for at this stage. The sixth body has not been located yet.
“We are still working on it,” Giuseppe Petrone, the national director of Italy’s firefighting department divers, told the Guardian. “We should be able to recover the sixth body today,” he added.