Thursday, July 18, 2013

News Summary: Court Hears About Italy Shipwreck

DOOMED SHIP: An Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia heard grim details of how the 32 victims of the shipwreck drowned, some after diving or falling into the sea from the capsized cruise liner.
CAPSIZED CAPTAIN: The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, is charged with manslaughter, causing the January 2012 shipwreck off the Italian coast and abandoning ship with 'hundreds of passengers and crew still on board.
DUMB MOVE? The Concordia hit a jagged reef when, prosecutors allege, Schettino brought the ship too close to rocky shores as a favor to a crewman whose relatives lived nearby.

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