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Transcripts for CNN Erin Burnett OutFront 20130927 03:51:15
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when the costa concordia capsized off italy in 2012, 32 people died. some of the victims bodies were never found. now remains have been found in the wreckage which divers will recover. these remains, what do we know about them? reporter: well, these aren t bodies. these are really just bones and fragments of bones that were found in an area that has previously been inaccessible because the ship was lying on its side on these two underwater mountaintops until they righted it last week. the salvage operators have sort of pinpointed the areas which they thought they would have the best success in finding these remains. and that s where the divers began. they only started yesterday. so within 24 hours they found the remains.
identified until sometime in the next couple of weeks themselves need to do crucial dna testing to feigned out if the bones they found belong to either of the two victims, whose bodies have not been recovered. that s a 50-year-old woman from sicily and a 33-year-old man who was on the ship from india. the discovery of these remains, obviously, will give closures to the families but also give the salvage operators a chance to start the next phase of their operation. they do not have access to the ship until and unless the remanls of the last two victims are found. after that they can move to the next step which is preparing for the reflotation of the costa concordia and the eventual removal of the vessel from the island. those bodies have been submerged for nearly 20 months so obviously they ve almost completely decomposed so they are just skeletal. the difficulty would be identifying, are these two bodies, parts of bodies. we were told how they will make