Costa Concordia: Remains Found Near Liner

Divers have found human remains near the shipwrecked cruise liner which ran aground off the Italian coast in January 2012.

Authorities say DNA tests will tell whether the remains are those of two victims whose bodies were never found.

The search for the last of the 32 dead resumed after the capsized cruise liner was hauled upright last week in a 19-hour salvage operation 20 months after the ship crashed into a reef off Tuscany on January 13, 2012.

The remains were "absolutely consistent" with the two missing people, an Indian man and an Italian woman, said Franco Gabrielli, the head of the government agency overseeing the vessel's salvage.

Relatives of the two victims - a female Italian passenger and a male Indian waiter - have been notified, Mr Gabrielli said.

Recovering the submerged bodies after 20 months under the weight of the 114,500 tonne vessel was "almost a miracle," he added.

The ship, which had been lying on its side in shallow water ever since capsizing, is due to be towed away from the Mediterranean holiday island, probably by next spring, and eventually broken up for scrap.

It capsized after crashing into a group of rocks just off the tiny island of Giglio with 4,229 people from 70 countries on board.

Ship's captain Francesco Schettino is on trial for multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship before all the passengers had been evacuated and causing environmental damage.

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