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Searchers find bones at Costa Concordia wreckage off Italian coast

ROME, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Human bones were found at the site of the Costa Concordia cruise liner wreckage Thursday, Italy's civil protection agency said.

The agency said the bones "probably" belonged to either a passenger or a crew member, the ANSA news agency reported.

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Officials said DNA tests would establish if the bones are from Italian passenger Maria Grazia Tricarichi or Indian crew member Russel Rebello, who drowned along with 30 others when the vessel hit a rock and capsized at Gigilo Island off Tuscany in January 2012.

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