Dangerous work to salvage shipwrecked liner

19 January 2012 Last updated at 00:53 ET Help

There is a serious risk that the shipwrecked liner, the Costa Concordia, could sink completely in rough seas.

The search for around 20 missing people continues, although the operation was earlier suspended after the vessel moved on the rocky ledge it sits upon.

Daniel Griffiths reports.

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