Σύμφωνα με τον ιταλικό Τύπο μια σορός βρέθηκε στο ναυάγιο του Costa Concordia, κατά τις διαδικασίες αποσυναρμολόγησης του στη Γένοβα.Η σορός πιστεύεται ότι ανήκει στο τελευταίο θύμα του ναυαγίου τον Russel Rebello, του οποίου το σώμα δεν βρέθηκε ποτέ.
Ο Russel Rebello ήταν Ινδός και εργαζόταν ως σερβιτόρος στο κρουαζιερόπλοιο όταν προσέκρουσε σε ύφαλο και βυθίστηκε στα ανοιχτά των ακτών της Τοσκάνης τον Ιανουάριο του 2012 παρασύροντας σε θάνατο 32 ανθρώπους.Το σώμα του δεν βρέθηκε ποτέ μετά από πολλές προσπάθειες αναζήτησης από δύτες.
A corpse found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia is thought to be that of the last person unaccounted for almost three years after the luxury liner sank, Italy’s coast guard said on Monday.
The ship recycling company, working on dismantling the ship, said the remains were found Monday in a cabin on the ship’s eighth deck. The remains were being turned over to Italian authorities for identification.
Russel Rebello, an Indian who worked as a waiter on the ship when it hit rocks and sank off the Tuscan coast in January 2012, killing 32 people, had been the only person missing after the disaster whose body has not yet been found.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman in the northern port city of Genoa, where the 290-meter-long (957-foot-long) hulk was towed for scrap in July, told Reuters a body found on the ship was “assumed to be the last victim, Russel Rebello.”
In August, authorities announced they had found remains on the ship and would test them to see if they belonged to Rebello. Italian media later reported that those remains were determined to be lamb bones.
The sinking of the Concordia prompted a chaotic night-time evacuation and one of the largest maritime salvage operations in history. The ship’s captain is being tried for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning the ship.
