8 October 2013
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Costa Concordia wreck: Remains of Indian waiter 'found'
Russel Rebello was working as a waiter on the Costa Concordia
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What we know
Divers
searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia off the Italian coast may
have found the remains of one of two people still missing, officials
say.
Italy's civil protection agency said it believed the remains belonged
to Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter.
An Italian passenger, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, is still unaccounted for.
Thirty people had already been confirmed dead after the cruise ship
partially sank off the island of Giglio last year.
Salvage teams moved it to an upright position last month.
"The remains have been found by rescuers on the third deck"
of the cruise ship, said a civil protection agency spokeswoman,
Francesca Maffini.
"Several elements make us say that they could relate to the
body of the young waiter of Indian nationality, Russel Rebello," she
said.
The agency the results would not be confirmed for several
days, but said Mr Rebello's family had been informed about the
development.
Italian officials have made the recovery of the remaining bodies a priority
after righting the cruise ship
An earlier announcement by the authorities that they had found the
remains of two human bodies was subsequently played down.
The search for the two people who remained unaccounted for
resumed on 24 September, a week after the wreck of the cruise ship had
been moved to an upright position and stabilised.
Officials have made the recovery of the remaining bodies a priority.
Divers had previously focussed their search for the two
missing people on the fourth deck of the Costa Concordia, where they had
reportedly been seen for the last time on the evening of the accident.
The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, is on trial
over the disaster.
He is accused of manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and
abandoning ship, but says he is being made a scapegoat for the errors of
others.
