Gallery: Italian cruise ship disaster

 

Passengers leapt into the sea and fought over lifejackets in panic when the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and keeled over, killing several people and leaving dozens missing.

 
January 15, 2012
 
 
 
Costa Concordia cruiseship
 

The Costa Concordia cruiseship lies on January 15, 2012 in the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio after it ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks on January 13.

Photograph by: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE, AFP/Getty Images

 
Costa Concordia cruiseship
A file photo of the Costa Concordia during a float out ceremony on September 2, 2005
A view shows the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship lying on its side after being holed by a rock off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.
The Costa Concordia cruiseship lies on January 15, 2012 in the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio after it ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks on January 13.
A couple feeds their child while sitting on a dock in front of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 15, 2012
Passengers put on life vests along the corridors of the Costa Concordia cruise ship January 13, 2012 near Giglio, Italy, in this still image taken from an amateur video shot by a German passenger and obtained January 14, 2012.
A view shows one of the two leaks in the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship after being holed by a rock off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.
Costa Concordia cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino (R) is escorted by a Carabinieri in Grosseto January 14, 2012.
Rescuers stand in a boat next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012.
A surviving passenger of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia shows a postcard of his travel as he arrives at the cruise's terminal of Marseille harbour January 14, 2012.
A helicopter evacuates a man from the Costa Concordia on Jan. 15, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio, late on January 13.
Three dead, 40 missing in Italian ship disaster
Rescuers are seen next Costa Concordia cruise ship.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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