News reports say 69 people are still unaccounted for after the the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Tuscany. Three bodies had been recovered from the sea by Saturday morning. The ANSA news agency said, quoting the prefect's office in Grosseto, that authorities have accounted for 4165 of the 4234 people who had boarded the liner. Al Jazeera's Sonia Gallego reports from Italy on a boat near the scene of the accident.
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Cruiseship accident Costa Concordia 13-01-2012 Italian version. At least 11 people died and 20 people missing. At 3.08 you see the cruiseship Costa Concordia on the ground. The ship had set sail from Civitavecchia Costa Cruises and was directed to Savona, carrying about 4200 passengers. He had a problem with the electric forced the crew to transfer all the occupants on the lifeboats in the direction of the neighboring island of Giglio The Costa Concordia Giglio Island (Tuscany) OME — Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4000 people, media reports said. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor said he feared further casualties as it was proving difficult to rescue the last passengers. One of the victims was a man in his 70s who died of a heart attack caused by the shock to his system when he jumped into the icy waters, reports said. Several people were also injured in the accident, two of them seriously.
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Italian officials say divers have pulled out a woman's body from the capsized Costa Concordia, raising to 13 the number of dead in the Jan. 13 accident off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Italian police released underwater video footage of their efforts to find bodies on the stricken Costa Concordia vessel. Coast Guard divers have been concentrating on parts of the ship where survivors have said many passengers were awaiting evacuation the night of January 13 after the Concordia's hull was gashed by a reef as the cruise liner came too close to the island. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
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Costa Concordia accident - Captain Arrested - Life boat video Francesco Schettino Second news report---www.youtube.com www.costacruise.com Cruiseship accident Costa Concordia The ship had set sail from Civitavecchia Costa Cruises and was directed to Savona, carrying about 4200 passengers. He had a problem with the electric forced the crew to transfer all the occupants on the lifeboats in the direction of the neighboring island of Giglio The Costa Concordia Giglio Island (Tuscany) OME — Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4000 people, media reports said. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor said he feared further casualties as it was proving difficult to rescue the last passengers. One of the victims was a man in his 70s who died of a heart attack caused by the shock to his system when he jumped into the icy waters, reports said. Several people were also injured in the accident, two of them seriously. Most of the 3200 passengers and 1000 crew members had been evacuated, but around 200 people were still on board around 0230 GMT, according to the prefect of the nearby city of Grosseto, Giuseppe Linardi. Helicopters with spotlights were being used to help rescuers. "At around 8 pm (1900 GMT) the 290-metre-long Costa Concordia cruise ship... began taking on ...
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Dramatic amateur video of resque operation from sinking luxury cruise ship emerged. Voices are heard of scared passengers being evacuated from Costa Concordia cruise liner to the . At least three people have been confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying over 4-thousand passengers ran aground off Italy's north-west coast. 69 are still unaccounted for. Most of those on board the Costa Concordia were evacuated on lifeboats or swam ashore. The vessel hit a sandbar near the island of Giglio late on Friday. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
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A cruise ship with over 4-thousand people on board has grounded off Italy's north-west coast. At least 3 bodies have been recovered, with more than a dozen others still missing. Most of those on board the Costa Concordia were evacuated from the vessel after it hit a reef near the Island of Giglio, late on Friday. Passengers reported a loud bang during dinner, and were told the ship had stopped because of electrical problems. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com
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www.costacruise.com The ship had set sail from Civitavecchia Costa Cruises and was directed to Savona, carrying about 4200 passengers. He had a problem with the electric forced the crew to transfer all the occupants on the lifeboats in the direction of the neighboring island of Giglio The Costa Concordia Giglio Island (Tuscany) OME — Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4000 people, media reports said. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor said he feared further casualties as it was proving difficult to rescue the last passengers. One of the victims was a man in his 70s who died of a heart attack caused by the shock to his system when he jumped into the icy waters, reports said. Several people were also injured in the accident, two of them seriously. Most of the 3200 passengers and 1000 crew members had been evacuated, but around 200 people were still on board around 0230 GMT, according to the prefect of the nearby city of Grosseto, Giuseppe Linardi. Helicopters with spotlights were being used to help rescuers. "At around 8 pm (1900 GMT) the 290-metre-long Costa Concordia cruise ship... began taking on water and tilting over by around 20 degrees," the coast guard said in a statement, as most of those aboard were rescued in lifeboats. Passengers heard a ...
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Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4000 people ran aground off Italy. There were scenes of panic as the Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees. People reached land by lifeboats but some swam ashore. Rescue teams have been going from cabin to cabin, searching for survivors. Italians, Germans, French and British were among the 3200 passengers. There were also 1000 crew on board. Helicopters evacuated the last 50 people on the deck who were in a "worsening" situation. Three people were confirmed dead, Italian coast guard officials said on Saturday morning - fewer than the six or eight deaths reported by Italian media earlier. Mediterranean cruise The Costa Concordia had sailed earlier on Friday from Civitavecchia port near Rome for a Mediterranean cruise, due to dock in Marseille after calling at ports in Sicily, Sardinia and Spain. One thousand passengers were Italian, with 500 Germans and 160 French. Some "tens" of British passengers are believed to have been on board, said the UK Foreign Office, which is sending a team to the scene. Some passengers told the Associated Press the crew had failed to give instructions on how to evacuate the ship. An evacuation drill was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. "It was so unorganised, our evacuation drill was scheduled for 17:00 (16:00 GMT)," Melissa Goduti, 28, from the US told AP. "We had joked what if something had happened today ...
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A fascinating look and close up reconstruction of the Costa Concordia accident from AIS data that shows the vessel striking the rocks, drifting off and doing a small loop around the area and finally drifting back onto a different set of rocks, from the AIS it appears to hit rocks twice Water depths can been seen on some of the close ups of the screens.
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