Body found aboard doomed Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia by workers dismantling wreck
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/body-found-workers-dismantling-wreck-italian-cruise-ship-costa-concordia-article-1.1998136 'After 1,025 days, I promised my family that I will bring back home my brother someday,' the brother of victim Russel Rebello said Monday. A body — believed to be the missing Indian waiter — was discovered, the last victim of the deadly 2012 capsizing off the Italian coast that resulted in 32 deaths. BY Jason Molinet NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, November 3, 2014, 11:51 PM The body of a waiter aboard the doomed Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found, ending the search for the shipwreck's last victim, authorities said. Workers clearing debris discovered the body Monday in a passenger cabin on the eighth deck, said Carabinieri commander Capt. Massimo Pittaluga. Russel Rebello, from India, went missing and was presumed dead — one of 32 people killed — when the Costa Concordia hit rocks and capsized near the Tuscan island Giglio on Jan. 13, 2012. The victim was found wearing a shirt that contained an identification card for Rebello, but DNA a test will be done to confirm the body's identity. "After 1,025 days, I promised my family that I will bring back home my brother someday," older brother Kevin Rebello wrote on Facebook. "When was the biggest question, I had no answer to. Finally, my younger brother Russel Rebello body has finally been found." Salvagers righted the 114,500-ton ship in July by pumping air into 30 large metal boxes attached to the hull. The Concordia was transferred to Genoa this summer, where it is being dismantled and scrapped. The body was found by crews dismantling the vessel. Now members of the Rebello family, which hails from Mumbai, can finally have closure. Kevin Rebello said he planned to bring the body to India. The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, faces multiple charges including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, while four crew members and an official with the ship's operator, Costa Crociere, were sentenced to prison terms after pleading guilty last year. "I don't have words to express," Rebello said on Facebook. "Just my pain, my tears. My heart (was) pounding harder and my body trembling when I broke the news to my parents a while ago, who now will have a sigh of relief, Their constant prayers have been heard. Thanks to everyone who prayed and believed that one day he would be found." Original Article includes photo: VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images: Kevin Rebello shows a picture of his brother Russel Rebello. ---end--- -- Albert Peres afpe...@3129.ca 416.660.0847 cell