Dozens of private vehicles and company trucks have been completely burned in the car-deck of the Norman Atlantic ferry. The first images displayed in the media today show the extend of the damage. And not only. Several truck drivers were sleeping in their vehicles, when the fire broke out on December 28th 2014, while the ferry was sailing from Greece to Italy.
The video was uploaded by Italian news portal Brindisi Oggi on Sunday. It shows that smoke is still rising from the ferry, which has been towed to the port of Brindisi in Italy beginning of January.
The video gives just a slight idea of the fire hell on board of the Norman Atlantic.
According to initial investigation indications, the fire broke out in the third deck, Greek Skai.gr reports.
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The number of missing people and the height of death toll remains unknown. The Italian prosecutor investigating the tragedy indicated last Friday that “at least 27 people had likely perished in the disaster.”
The new estimate follows reception from the Greek authorities of a definitive list of who was on board the boat.
“On the basis of that, there are 16 paying passengers unaccounted for, along with two Syrian men reported by their families to have boarded as stowaways.
Italian authorities said in the immediate aftermath of the rescue operation that nine bodies had been recovered from the boat or the waters around it.
It was unclear if two others identified as dead in the water at the time were counted among the 16 passengers listed as missing.” (ABCNews)
The bodies of three Greek citizens were transported to Athens with a C-130 on Friday. The number of missing Greeks is given with nine, Greek media report.
On Saturday several truck drivers organized a rally in Thessaloniki to commemorate severale of their colleagues who lost their lives in the ferry. They said, that “9 people were still missing” and that “there was still no official information” to the families.
