Five (more) bodies found in cruise wreck

[Eugene]

Last edited Tue Jan 17, 2012, 11:34 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: BBC

17 January 2012 Last updated at 15:22 GMT

Five bodies found in cruise wreck

Italian rescuers have found five more bodies inside the stricken cruise ship Concordia, raising the confirmed death toll to 11.

Officials said four men and a woman were found on the ship, which capsized after it hit rocks on Friday.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16598232

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Video at the site shows they still had hundreds to evacuate when the ship was on its side

They're climbing down the hull on a rope. It's surprising that more weren't killed if that many were on baord when it went fully over.

They've been using explosives to get into the hull now; I think tha means they've given up hop of finding anyone alive.

[DJ13]

2. Lifeboats are useless in that kind of sinking

That video is frightening.

[tawadi]

3. All this because the captian wanted to "salute" residents of the island? Wow

The ship capsized when the captain steered too close to the coast, reportedly to "salute" residents of a Tuscan island, and is now still in the water with only its port side emerged.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/italian-cruise-ship-death-toll-rises-11-4691468