Divers in Italy find what appears to be 8 more bodies of those missing in cruise ship disaster
Posted Feb 22, 2012 11:17:33 AM.
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ROME – Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship found eight more bodies Wednesday, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.
Italy’s national civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation off a Tuscan island, said two of the bodies were recovered a few hours after being sighted. It said they are those of a woman and a girl.
It did not identify the two, but only one child’s name was on the list of the missing, 5-year-old Dayana Arlotti. She was on the Mediterranean cruise with her father and his girlfriend. The girlfriend survived; the father is listed among the missing.
The Concordia, which was carrying some 4,200 passengers and crew, struck a reef near the Tuscan island of Giglio on Jan. 13 and capsized.
With Wednesday’s development, 25 bodies have now been found and 18 of those have been identified. Another 7 people are still missing.
Most of the victims were found on the capsized ship in the days after the accident. Three corpses were recovered from the water a few hours after it grounded.
