ROME: Italian rescuers have found more human remains on the wreck of Italy’s Costa Concordia, which are believed to belong to one of two victims who are still missing, the civil protection agency said yesterday.
The “remains of a human body, which could be one of the two missing, an Indian waiter” were found on the third bridge of the cruise-liner which crashed off the tiny island of Giglio in January 2012, said Francesca Maffini, the agency’s spokeswoman.
Thirty bodies were recovered from the wreck after the January 13, 2012 tragedy but two — Italian passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi and Indian waiter Russel Rebello — are still officially reported missing.
“Several elements lead us to say it could be the body of the young Indian waiter,” Maffini said in a statement, adding that the man’s family had been informed of the discovery.
“I have been waiting for this news for 21 months... We hope that the other lady will immediately be found,” said Rebello’s brother Kevin.
The ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial for his role in the disaster and is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all passengers had been evacuated.
AFP
