South Africa: Eight Citizens Survive Cruise Ship Disaster

16 January 2012

Pretoria — About eight South Africans are recovering at a hotel in Italy after what began as a luxury cruise holiday turned into a nightmare.

The eight were onboard the Costa Concordia, the 290-meter-long cruise vessel, together with more than 4 200 people from about 60 countries, when the ship hit a reef which tore a 70m crack in its hull.

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