Eleven killed in wreck

Death toll from the sinking of the Cruiser "Costa Concordia", happened on Friday in waters off the Italian island of Giglio, increased yesterday to 11, while increasing debate about the behaviour of the captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, who must remain under house arrest.

Italian rescue services divers yesterday located other five bodies in the wreckage of the cruise, a woman and four men aged between 50 and 60 years old, which made life jackets, were on the side of the stern of the boat submerged under the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

These five victims had joined the six found in recent days, among them the Spanish tourist Guillermo Gual and the Peruvian member of crew Thomas Albert rib Mendoza.

So far, 22 people on board the Cruiser are still missing, including the also Peruvian Erika Soria, for 26 years, who worked as a waitress in the u000a"Costa Concordia".

The list of missing disclosed yesterday by the Italian authorities, who have formed a crisis unit in the town of Grosseto (Italy Centre), contains, among others, six Italians (including a 5 year old girl), a dozen Germans and two Americans.

Expedite its tasks
rescue services, who already yesterday had to interrupt their work for a few hours by the movement of the ship, working to expedite its tasks, through the use of explosive charges for entering the hull, with forecasts that get worse tomorrow time and the State of the sea. While rescue teams working in Giglio waters during the hours of sunshine, judicial activity continues in Grosseto on the behaviour of the captain of the ship, who the prosecution accused of multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship and sinking. Schettino, who could be sentenced to a maximum penalty of 15 years of u000aprison, was submitted yesterday to the interrogation of the judge's instruction Valeria Montesarchio, after which judge ordered the arrest of the captain, since he does not consider that there is risk of flight as claimed by the prosecution of Grosseto.

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