8 more bodies recovered from cruise ship wreckage

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The body believed to be of 5-year-old Dayana Arlotti, one of the victims of the luxury ship Costa Concordia that run aground off the Tuscany Isola del Giglio island on Jan. 13, 2012, is taken to the Grosseto's mortuary, central Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Divers searching the capsized cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.

The bodies were being transferred to a hospital on the mainland for identification, a process which could take days. Before Wednesday's development, 15 people were listed as missing, but only one of them was a child, Dayana Arlotti. The 5-year-old girl was on the Mediterranean cruise with her father and his girlfriend. The girlfriend survived. The father was among the missing.

A fireman signals after recovering the body of one of the victims of the luxury ship Costa Concordia.

The Concordia, which was carrying some 4,200 passengers and crew, struck a reef off the Tuscan island of Giglio on Jan. 13, took on water and started listing badly until it lay on its side.

The body of one of the victims of the luxury ship Costa Concordia that run aground off the Tuscany Isola del Giglio island on Jan. 13, 2012, is taken to the Grosseto's mortuary, central Italy.

Most of the victims were found on the capsized ship in the first two weeks after the accident. Three corpses were recovered from the water a few hours after the capsizing.

Officials coordinating search efforts said divers on Wednesday went into an area where survivors had told rescuers that some passengers had gathered to await evacuation. Many of the ship's lifeboats couldn't be launched after the ship leaned heavily on one side.

A Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 file photo shows Italian Navy scuba divers as they return after working on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy.

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The body believed to be of 5-year-old Dayana Arlotti, one of the victims of the luxury ship Costa Concordia that run aground off the Tuscany Isola del Giglio island on Jan. 13, 2012, is taken to the Grosseto's mortuary, central Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Divers searching the capsized cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.

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