More than two months after the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized off the Italian coast, a team searching the wreck has found five more bodies.
Italian authorities say they were found outside the ship, in a small space between the wreck and the sea bed.
Altogether 30 bodies have now been found since the vessel ran aground off the island of Giglio on 13 January.
The Costa Concordia was carrying 4,200 passengers and crew when its hull was torn open by rocks.
Civil Protection Agency chief Franco Gabrielli did not give any details on the sex or ages of the latest victims to be found.
Two people remain missing and are presumed dead.
Eight more bodies were found in late February, but forensic authorities are still working on formally identifying them.
A crew member from India and passengers from the US, Italy and Germany are reported to be among those as yet unaccounted for.
22 March 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17472345
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