Watch live: Search continues for six missing people after yacht capsized and sank in tornado

Police divers continue searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in deep seas off the shore of Sicily.

The yacht was moored about a kilometer offshore when a storm rolled in around 0400 on Monday.

Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived.

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