Emergency teams in Italy are racing to rescue up to 70 people thought to be still missing after a cruise ship ran aground off the country's west coast.

Divers are searching rooms in the Costa Concordia, which is lying on its side 200m (650ft) off Giglio island.

It sank on the first night of a Mediterranean cruise on Friday. Most of its 4,000 passengers and crew reached land by lifeboats but some swam ashore.

Two French passengers and a Peruvian crewman are known to have died.

Local official Giuseppe Linardi on Saturday said about 70 people were unaccounted for, but some may still be housed in private homes on Giglio - where the survivors reached land.

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