Italian authorities raised the official toll of the missing in the accident-stricken cruise ship "Costa Concordia", hours after announcing the cessation of the search for survivors amid fears of an oil leak lead to serious environmental damage.
Has announced that the Italian authorities in the early hours of Tuesday morning the high official toll of the missing in the accident cruise ship tourism stricken off the coast of the country to 29 missing, including 25 passengers and four crew members, while the pointed commander of the Coast Guard Italian Admiral Marco Brosco that there are 12 a citizen of Germany among the missing.
The official toll of 16 is missing, but the census does not persist because of the chaos that prevailed in the evacuation of the ship "Costa Concordia" on the evening of Friday, where many of the passengers left the region on their own after their arrival to the mainland.
The commander of Italian Coast Guard announced Monday evening, stop the search at the site of the sinking of the ship on the island of Giglio Italy, pointing out that the search inside the ship had become a danger to the most skilled divers, but added, saying that there is still hope of finding survivors where there are areas that were are accessed.
Charge
Other hand, the company sent Costa Krotchera the owner of the ship fingers to the ship's captain Francesco Skitino prison for murder and the abandonment of the ship, which exposed him to a 12-year prison sentence if found guilty only the second charge.
The company issued a statement yesterday saying that the ship's captain made mistakes in the estimate have had serious consequences, and "decisions in the management of emergency as they did not meet the standards of the Costa Krotchera and committed to international standards."
Has announced that the Italian authorities in the early hours of Tuesday morning the high official toll of the missing in the accident cruise ship tourism stricken off the coast of the country to 29 missing, including 25 passengers and four crew members, while the pointed commander of the Coast Guard Italian Admiral Marco Brosco that there are 12 a citizen of Germany among the missing.
The official toll of 16 is missing, but the census does not persist because of the chaos that prevailed in the evacuation of the ship "Costa Concordia" on the evening of Friday, where many of the passengers left the region on their own after their arrival to the mainland.
The commander of Italian Coast Guard announced Monday evening, stop the search at the site of the sinking of the ship on the island of Giglio Italy, pointing out that the search inside the ship had become a danger to the most skilled divers, but added, saying that there is still hope of finding survivors where there are areas that were are accessed.
Charge
Other hand, the company sent Costa Krotchera the owner of the ship fingers to the ship's captain Francesco Skitino prison for murder and the abandonment of the ship, which exposed him to a 12-year prison sentence if found guilty only the second charge.
The company issued a statement yesterday saying that the ship's captain made mistakes in the estimate have had serious consequences, and "decisions in the management of emergency as they did not meet the standards of the Costa Krotchera and committed to international standards."
The Chairman of the Board of Directors that the path chosen by the captain of the ship "personal initiative in violation of the rules written and approved" by the institution, pointing to the content of the conversation wireless between the leadership of the port and the captain, who found that he left the ship before the last passenger and refused to return to it as required by the laws of maritime navigation, as well as non-compliance with the orders of the leadership of the port according to the recording broadcast by the Italian news agency.
Photo taken by a diver inside the ship (French)
And defense witnessesHowever, the defense counsel for the captain stressed that the latter has "remarkable maneuver" after the collision with rocks to make the ship close to the beach as much as possible to avoid drowning in the sea ", and was able to save the lives of many people.
According to testimonies of passengers that the captain moved closer to the beach for a review and lamps illuminated the entire ship, was launched horns to greet the residents of the island.
Several witnesses criticized the anarchy in the process of evacuation, which drew a passenger - a Portuguese nationality - that everyone was running in an atmosphere of mass hysteria and everyone is trying to save himself, so that the crew members themselves rushed to leave the ship before the passengers.
In addition to the humanitarian disaster, authorities are working to prevent leakage of 2380 tonnes of fuel from the ship after it was seen oily liquid floating near the ship's hull italics in the water, said Italian Environment Minister that even now there are no signs of oil leakage, after gave the company the owner of the ship 48 hours to provide plan to empty the fuel tanks, but did not rule out the possibility of sinking the ship and break apart.
However, the mayor of the island of Gilo expressed fears of a bomb "environmental", and confirmed official sources that the competent authorities planned to declare a state of natural disaster in the region to mobilize financial and human resources to prevent pollution of the natural wealth surrounding the island, while a team of experts to keep the ship in a stable situation.
According to testimonies of passengers that the captain moved closer to the beach for a review and lamps illuminated the entire ship, was launched horns to greet the residents of the island.
Several witnesses criticized the anarchy in the process of evacuation, which drew a passenger - a Portuguese nationality - that everyone was running in an atmosphere of mass hysteria and everyone is trying to save himself, so that the crew members themselves rushed to leave the ship before the passengers.
In addition to the humanitarian disaster, authorities are working to prevent leakage of 2380 tonnes of fuel from the ship after it was seen oily liquid floating near the ship's hull italics in the water, said Italian Environment Minister that even now there are no signs of oil leakage, after gave the company the owner of the ship 48 hours to provide plan to empty the fuel tanks, but did not rule out the possibility of sinking the ship and break apart.
However, the mayor of the island of Gilo expressed fears of a bomb "environmental", and confirmed official sources that the competent authorities planned to declare a state of natural disaster in the region to mobilize financial and human resources to prevent pollution of the natural wealth surrounding the island, while a team of experts to keep the ship in a stable situation.
Source: Agencies
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