Two more bodies pulled from cruise wreckage

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GIGLIO, ITALY (NEWS1130) – The Italian Coast Guard says its divers have found two more bodies aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground Friday evening.

The discovery of the bodies brings to five the number of known dead after the luxury ship ran aground with some 4,200 people aboard on Friday night.

The Coast Guard says the bodies of the two elderly people were found in the submerged restaurant.

A helicopter earlier airlifted a third survivor from the capsized hulk of the ship.  Twenty others have been injured and as many as 15 others are missing, but all 12 Canadians are accounted for.  

The captain of the ship is being held by police for suspected manslaughter among other possible charges.

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