News reports say 69 people are still unaccounted for after the the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Tuscany.
Three bodies had been recovered from the sea by Saturday morning. The ANSA news agency said, quoting the prefect's office in Grosseto, that authorities have accounted for 4,165 of the 4,234 people who had boarded the liner.
Al Jazeera's Sonia Gallego reports from Italy on a boat near the scene of the accident.
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