They arrested the captain of the ship

The wreck in the Tyrrhenian Sea to the island of Giglio (Italy Center) of the largest Italian Cruiser "Costa Concordia" with 4,229 occupants on board, has paid off with at least 3 dead, 40 injured and between 60 and 70 people not localized and the arrest of the Commander of the boat.

The dead are a Peruvian, Member of the crew, and two French tourists whose bodies were recovered yesterday of the sea by the rescuers, who continued with the tasks of search around the hull of the boat, 114,500 tonnes and almost 300 metres.

In addition to the deceased, three 40 passengers are injured from diverse consideration and two of them are in a State serious, one with a head injury and another in the spinal dorsal.

For its part, the Commander of the "Costa Concordia", Francesco Schettino, has been arrested, according to the Chief Prosecutor from Grosseto (Italy Centre), Francesco Verusio, whom he interrogated during several u000ahours.

Another Member of the crew, whose identity has not been revealed, is also being investigated, according to Italian media.

In the boat they were travelling 177 Spaniards, 107 Latin Americans (of Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Uruguay) and an Andorran, in addition to nearly a thousand Italians, 569 Germans and 462 French, the three countries with the highest number of passengers ahead of Spain.

A missing
A group of nine Spaniards who was on the Cruiser wanted yesterday in Porto Santo Stefano (as opposed to Giglio) to one of his relatives, delque had no news from the wreck.

Another Spanish boy, housed in a hotel of Rome, had no news since last night of the two friends who were with him.

The wreck occurred at 2140 local time yesterday (2040 GMT) when the ship was headed from the port of Civitavecchia, 70 kilometers north of Rome, to u000aSavona (Northwest of Italy), stage of a Mediterranean Cruise which had scales in Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca (Spain), as well as Palermo and Cagliari (Italy) and Marseille (France).

So far the causes of the incident are unknown although they toyed with the idea of the captain to continue a wrong route, that the ship should not be at the point where he received the impact against the rocks on both sides of the ship, which has been banked at 80 degrees and run aground on a sandbank 30 meters deep.

As they were the survivors of the tragedy, when most of the passengers was at a dinner there was a strong blow and at the same time was light, after which the Commander of the ship called the calm, assuring that it was an electrical failure. "It's been a nightmare, it looked like the Titanic, we thought to die," claimed the Italians Silvana Caddeo, Ignazio Deidda and Mirella Corda.

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Solidarity u000aTHE neighbors of Giglio
solidarity emerged yesterday among those who came to help the survivors of the Cruiser "Costa Concordia". Residents of the small island of Giglio (Italy Centre), off whose coast the boat ran aground opened their doors to those who arrived exhausted and gave them shelter, as well as the inhabitants of the town near the port of Santo Stefano.

Red Cross members who participated in the work of reception of the evacuated passengers to Santo Stefano said that the residents of the town took food and clothes to school Giuseppe Mazzini enabled to receive these people. Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the operational centres for the reception of passengers, which began arriving to 0300 local time today (0200 GMT) after the wreck registered at 2140 local time on Saturday (2040 GMT), explained the maritime agency sources.

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