Norman Atlantic: 5 dead, all other passengers rescued

Efforts are being made to identify the four dead people found at sea

Four bodies were found by rescuers in the waters near the Norman Atlantic ferry where a fire broke out at dawn on Sunday while it was 44 nautical miles northwest of Corfu. Shipping and Aegean Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis confirmed the existence of the bodies that lift the death toll from the disaster to five.

Efforts are being made to identify the four dead people who were found at sea as no missing people had been counted. A Turkish passenger told Italian RAI: “I am certain that I saw four dead people infront of me with my own eyes! Many people unfortunately fell into the sea. I also saw people who had entered a boat and had then fallen into sea and I don’t know what happened to them.”

Meanwhile, all 478 passengers and crew members aboard the ship have been rescued.

Announcement concerning the four dead people:

A Turkish passenger said he saw four dead people: 

Scenes from the Super Puma helicopter:

An analytic record of the nationalities of people on board the Norman Atlantic:

Greeks – 234 people
Turks – 54 people
Albanian – 22 people
Italians – 22 people
Germans – 18 people
Swiss – 10 people
French – 9 people
Georgian – 8 people
Bulgarian – 7 people
Austrians – 6 people
Syrian – 5 people
Belgian – 3 people
Dutch – 3 people
FYROM – 3 people
Afghan – 2 people
British – 2 people
Hungarians – 2 people
Iraqis – 2 people
Russians – 2 people
Ukraine – 2 people
Canadian – 1 person
Croatian – 1 person
Egyptian – 1 person
Malthese – 1 person
Romanian – 1 person
Swiss – 1 person