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Story highlights Of 32 declared dead in Costa Concordia wreck, two bodies have yet to be recovered Divers will try to recover the unidentified remains Thursday afternoon, agency says Costa Concordia struck rocks off Italy's Giglio Island in January Engineers rotated the ship back to vertical this month. Human remains have been found on the wrecked Costa Concordia, possibly answering what happened to the last two missing people from the cruise liner that struck rocks off Italy's Giglio Island in , a spokesman for the head of Italy's civil protection agency said Thursday.

Divers will try to recover the remains, which were found on deck 4, on Thursday afternoon, the spokesman said. The discovery comes a week after engineers finally righted the ship , which capsized when it hit rocks in the Tyrrhenian Sea in January , killing 32 of the 4, people on board.

The toll of 32 includes the two people who were missing but presumed dead: Russel Rebello of India and Maria Grazia Trecarichi of Sicily. Their bodies were long believed to be either trapped beneath or inside the ship.

Tragedy transforms island paradise. Rebello, 33, was a cruise waiter who was last seen helping passengers off the ship. Trecarichi was on the cruise to celebrate her 50th birthday with her year-old daughter, who survived. More Videos Human remains found on Costa Concordia Costa Concordia families still wait Authorities say the ship struck the rocks off Giglio Island after the captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered the liner to veer more than four miles off course to salute a former sea captain who had retired on Giglio.

How the ship was raised. Schettino faces charges of manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship with passengers still on board.

His trial, which began with preliminary hearings in March, resumed Monday in Grosseto. Schettino argues that he is a hero who saved the lives of more than 4, people, not a villain whose negligence led to the deaths of His defense is trying to prove, among other things, that the ship's watertight doors did not function properly, and that is the reason the ship sank, leading to all 32 deaths during evacuation.

Engineers rotated the ship back to vertical last week after it rested 20 months on its side. Chiudi Condividi. Link breve. Thirty-two people died when the ill-fated cruise liner capsized off Italy's coast in The remains of Indian waiter Russel Rebello were discovered in a passenger cabin by workers tasked with dismantling the ship in Genoa, Italian police commander Capt.

Massimo Pittaluga said on Monday. Rebello worked on the luxury vessel, and was the only victim still not accounted for until recently after the accident almost three years ago. In a Facebook post, Rebello's brother Kevin Rebello confirmed the discovery of the remains and thanked "all those who prayed and believed that one day he would be found.

He said a DNA test would be carried out on the body before his brother could be repatriated to India and laid to rest "with honor. Keven Rebello said he was informed of the discovery by Italy's civil protection agency and by Costa Crociere, an Italian subsidiary of the US-based Carnival Group which owned the Concordia. The Repubblica daily newspaper said the cabin was in a part of the ship that had been crushed against the sea-floor when the Costa Concordia hit rocks and capsized near the Italian island of Giglio on January 13, Kevin Rebello shows a picture of his brother, Russel, whose remains are thought to have been found on the Costa Concordia.

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