Manoeuvres have begun to remove the wreckage of the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia from Giglio island.<br /><br />Tug boats is swinging the 114,500-tonne ship around to the east. Once it is facing in the right direction, a convoy of 14 vessels will tow the liner to its home port of Genoa where it will be scrapped.<br /><br />The operation was delayed by some days due because of rough seas.<br /><br />“I am a little bit worried,” said Angela Vicino, a tourist and regular visitor to the island. “I hope everything goes OK and that it actually leaves because I can’t wait until the island returns to normal.”<br /><br />Thirty-two people died when the Costa Concordia struck the Tuscan island two and a half years ago.<br /><br />The ship’s captain is on trial, where he denies charges of manslaughter, sailing too close to the shore and abandoning ship.
