Coastguard: 29 still missing in Italian cruise ship disaster

Four crewmen and 25 passengers remain unaccounted for three days after the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashed off Tuscany, the coast guard said Monday.

"An hour ago I received a report from the (local) Grosseto administration that 29 people remain unaccounted for," coastguard chief Marco Brusco said on Italian television, revising upward an earlier estimate of about 15

The earlier estimate did not take into account 10 Germans that a German official said were still missing Monday.

Brusco said "there are still areas (of the ship) to check" and that "a glimmer of hope remains".

So far six bodies have been recovered, those of one Italian, one Spanish and two French tourists, a Peruvian seaman and one unidentified victim.