The victims of the Bayesian¡¯s sinking were likely either asleep or tried to escape to no avail as Mike Lynch¡¯s yacht went down in minutes during bad weather, prosecutors in Sicily said as they announced a probe for manslaughter and negligent shipwreck.
The dynamic of what happened to those killed isn¡¯t fully clear, deputy prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano told reporters on Saturday. Autopsies are due to take place soon.
¡°Their position could lead us to think that they tried to escape, but this isn¡¯t demonstrable in a preliminary phase,¡± he said of the bodies, found inside the ship, on the side closest to the surface. ¡°The bodies might also have been grouped there, floating.¡±
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