Dozens missing from stricken Italian cruise ship, two found
Rome - Rescuers have found two survivors after at least three people died and dozens more went missing after a cruise ship ran aground off Italy's western coast, Italian news agency ANSA reported after midnight Sunday morning.
Rescue teams discovered two survivors, an Asian man and woman, reported ANSA.
The search for survivors - including the deployment of divers – would continue overnight, said rescue official Luca Cari.
The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, was taken into custody, ANSA reported, citing a prosecutor in the Tuscan city of Grossetto, Francesco Verusio.
Earlier, Schettino had been questioned by investigators trying to determine the causes of the accident.
More than 20 hours after the accident occurred, government officials indicated that many people who had been on board the Costa Concorida were still unaccounted for.
However, the officials said that they were revising downwards the number of people reported as missing - at one stage more than 70 – as survivors were gradually tallied.
The bodies of the three people who died were identified as two French passengers and one Peruvian crew member.
The three, all men, are thought to have drowned after the Costa Concordia ran aground late Friday near the Isola del Giglio, an island off Italy's western shore.//DPA
