27 Sep 2013

Wreck divers discover human remains

9:27 am on 27 September 2013

Italian officials say divers have found human remains around the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

The ship ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people.

A major search for bodies was carried out in the aftermath of the disaster, but two people were still missing when the search was eventually called off - an Italian passenger and an Indian waiter.

It was thought they may have been trapped beneath the ship, in the rocks.

Now the wreck has been pulled upright the search has been renewed and some remains have been found lying just outside the hull on the seabed, the BBC reports.

The remains are still being brought to shore and the process of carrying out DNA tests has yet to begin.