Death toll of Italian cruise liner rises to 11
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Xinhua, January 18, 2012
The death toll from the wreck of Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia rose to eleven on Tuesday as five more bodies were found in the vessel.
![The partially submerged Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen off the west coast of Italy at the Tuscan island of Giglio, Jan. 17, 2012. The death toll from the wreck of Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia rose to eleven on Tuesday as another five bodies were found in the vessel, according to the ANSA news agency. Twenty-four people from the ship are now still missing, and chances of them being found alive are getting fainter. [Wang Yunjia/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20120118/000cf1bdd03f108069970e.jpg "The partially submerged Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen off the west coast of Italy at the Tuscan island of Giglio, Jan. 17, 2012. The death toll from the wreck of Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia rose to eleven on Tuesday as another five bodies were found in the vessel, according to the ANSA news agency. Twenty-four people from the ship are now still missing, and chances of them being found alive are getting fainter. [Wang Yunjia/Xinhua]") |
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The partially submerged Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen off the west coast of Italy at the Tuscan island of Giglio, Jan. 17, 2012. The death toll from the wreck of Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia rose to eleven on Tuesday as another five bodies were found in the vessel, according to the ANSA news agency. Twenty-four people from the ship are now still missing, and chances of them being found alive are getting fainter. [Wang Yunjia/Xinhua] |
According to local authorities, 24 people from the ship are now still missing, and chances of them being found alive are getting slimmer.
Massive rescue operations at Italy's western coast, where the 290-meter-long ship with more than 4,200 people on broad ran aground last Friday night after hitting a reef, were getting more difficult as weather conditions will be worsened.
The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, has been arrested on charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship.
He allegedly raised the alarm too late to get the passengers off the ship safely and refused to follow the company's emergency procedures.
On Monday, the president of the Genoa-based company operating the cruise ship Costa Cruises, Pierluigi Foschi, told a press conference "a human error cannot be denied".
"An unauthorized change of course has caused a tragedy beyond belief," he said, adding the emergency procedures that were adopted did not meet the strict requirements and documented training.
