Tag: Livorno

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:28 UTC

  MSC Orchestra four crew members hospitalized with bacterial meningitis

  

  Four members of the crew of an Italian liner are in hospital, including one who is fighting for his life, following an outbreak of bacterial meningitis. The four were admitted to hospital in the Tuscan port of Livorno on Sunday at the end of a cruise by MSC Orchestra liner. A 32-year-old Indonesian crew member is the most ill of the four.

• Sunday, January 15th 2012 - 01:00 UTC

  Cruise captain arrested; 50 to 70 people still missing says Italian Coast Guard

  

  The Italian captain of the cruise ship that ran aground -- killing three persons and injuring 20 more -- was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship, said a local prosecutor in Grosetto, Italy.