A £14m superyacht owned by the founder of troubled grocery app Getir caught fire and sunk off the coast of Sardinia.
Sixteen passengers and crew escaped from the Atina before it was completely engulfed in flames on Saturday evening whilst it was moored in the Gulf of Olbia.
NUMBER OF INJURIES/DEATHS
The tourists, who were from Turkey, were collected by firefighters and coastguards and there were no reported injuries.
Among those on board is believed to be Serkan Borancili who owned the 47-m-long vessel. The entrepreneur co-founded the grocery delivery app Getir in 2015.
Footage from the Olbia Coast Guard shows the yacht sinking while being doused with an extinguisher.
It ended up on the seabed about 7m deep and local media has said that clean-up operations are currently underway.
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CAUSE OF FIRE
The yacht was carrying about 50,000 litres of fuel, but the Olbia Port Authority said no spills had been detected.
The fire began in the superyacht’s engine compartment but the cause of the fire is currently being investigated.
