Italy IDs 4 victims from cruise ship disaster

  By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRYROME -- Italian authorities have released the identities of four victims who perished when the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran into rocks off the Tuscan coast.

The four - two more French, an Italian and a Peruvian - were among those recovered in the first hours after the disaster Friday night.

Civil Protection authorities on Thursday identified them as Thomas Alberto Costilla Mendoza, a crew member from Peru, Giovanni Masia, a passenger from Italy, and French passengers Francis Servil, 71, and Jean-Pierre Micheaud, 61. The news agency ANSA said Masia, who would have turned 86 next week, was buried in Sardenia on Thursday.

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