Italy marks 10 years since deadly Costa Concordia shipwreck

By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration that will end with a candlelit vigil marking the moment the ship slammed into a reef and then capsized off Tuscany. Church bells rang out as a commemorative Mass got under way in the Giglio church to honor the 32 people who died in the Jan. 13, 2012, shipwreck. It was the same church that took in hundreds of survivors that freezing cold night, giving them shelter after they had arrived on shore in lifeboats, some of them having shimmied down the side of the liner. Survivors and relatives of the dead will be placing a wreath in the water where the hulking liner finally came to rest on its side off Giglio’s coast.