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according to reuters on september 7, a source involved in the investigation said that italian police conducted a preliminary examination on the body of british billionaire mike lynch that day, and the results showed that lynch died of asphyxiation due to lack of oxygen.

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on august 19, the yacht carrying mike lynch, a well-known british software technology entrepreneur, and jonathan bloomer, a well-known financial tycoon and chairman of morgan stanley international, sank in the waters south of italy.

seven people were killed in the incident, including lynch, his daughter hannah, jonathan bloomer and his wife judy bloomer, american lawyer chris morvillo and his wife neda morvillo, and kaldor thomas, who was the chef on the yacht.

according to cailianshe, citing italian media reports, the autopsies of the bloomers and the movillos have been completed, restoring what happened in the last moments of their lives.

the autopsy results showed thatnone of the four had any water in their lungs, suggesting they had suffocated before drowning.the divers found the bodies of the four people on the left side of the cabin. investigators believe that after the ship tilted to the right and sank, the four people tried to find the last oxygen in the cabin and eventually suffocated to death in the carbon dioxide "bubbles". the report said that the current examination results showed that there were no signs of injury on the four victims.

the report said,police have ordered further forensic testing on all the victims, with results expected in the coming weeks.

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earlier reports:

lynch and his daughter and mr. and mrs. bloomer died in the shipwreck

lynch's wife and other survivors are under investigation

the yacht carrying mike lynch, a well-known british software technology entrepreneur, and jonathan bloomer, a well-known financial tycoon and chairman of morgan stanley international, sank in the southern waters of italy on august 19. as of august 23, the identities of all seven victims have been confirmed, including lynch and his daughter and bloomer and his wife.

italian prosecutors said on august 24 that the initial direction of the investigation into the shipwreck was that someone was suspected of negligent shipwreck and multiple counts of manslaughter.

lynch, 59, is known as the "british version of bill gates". he sold his software business to hewlett-packard many years ago, a deal that was accused of fraud in the united states. bloomer and morvillo appeared in court as lynch's defense witnesses and defense lawyers. in june this year, lynch was acquitted.

according to media reports, lynch arranged this yacht trip to celebrate his acquittal with relatives and friends, but tragedy occurred unexpectedly.

according to reuters,lynch's wife, the captain of the bayes and 15 other survivors were questioned this week. none of them made public statements about the sinking.

ambrogio cartosio, the prosecutor of the termini-imerese region in southern italy, said at a press conference on august 24 that the prosecution has officially launched an investigation. the current direction of the investigation is that unidentified people are guilty of negligent shipwreck and multiple counts of manslaughter, but the investigation is not targeting specific suspects.

another italian prosecutor, raffaele cammarano, said at a press conference that the investigation is still in its early stages and may develop in any direction, and the prosecution "absolutely does not rule out any possibility."

cammarano said the 15 survivors were not obliged under italian law to stay in italy, but prosecutors wanted them to cooperate with the investigation.

there are many doubts about the cause of the yacht accident

also encountering a storm at sea, the yacht lynch was on sank quickly "within a few minutes", while similar ships nearby escaped disaster. public opinion believes that there are many doubts and there are different speculations about the cause of the accident.

many foreign media reported that there were many suspicious points in the sinking of the yacht.

first, why did it sink so quickly? according to the bbc, survivors described that "it took about five minutes from the moment the waves lifted the boat to the moment it sank". some experts believe that luxury yachts such as the bayesian are extremely safe and can withstand storms of the intensity of the incident. moreover, such yachts have watertight compartments, which can prevent the boat from sinking quickly even if some parts are filled with water.

secondly, why did the surrounding ships survive? at the same time, the "sir robert baden powell", a 42-meter-long sailing ship near the "bayes", was almost unscathed, and its crew also rescued the survivors of the yacht.

italy has launched a criminal investigation into the accident, and the uk's marine accident investigation branch has sent four investigators to italy to assist in the preliminary analysis.

matthew shank, chairman of the british non-profit organization "maritime search and rescue committee", believes that based on the signs at the time of the incident, the yacht should have encountered a "high-impact" weather phenomenon such as a "waterspout". "i classify it as a black swan event."

giovanni costantino, head of the italian sea group, the parent company of the shipbuilding company that built the bayes, attributed the sinking to a series of human errors based on ship tracking data. he said that the ship sank due to water ingress, and the people who were taking shelter from the wind and rain were trapped in the closed cabin "like mice caught in a trap" and could not escape. investigators will later announce the location of the water ingress point.

source: red star news, global times, national business daily, previous reports