Costa Concordia may have had 'ghost' passengers: officials

Italian authorities said Sunday that there could have been unregistered people on board the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner, as they struggled to put a number on the missing.A divers pulled a womans body from the wreck off the Tuscan coast, raising the death toll to 13, officials admitted to uncertainty over how many people were still missingDivers were looking for 19 people officially missing, there may have been people on board who were never registered as either crew or on passengers lists, said the head of Italys protection agency, Franco Gabrielli.Passengers may have been invited on board at the last minute by a crew member, the agencys spokeswoman Francesca Maffini explained.Gabrielli said relatives of a Hungarian woman have claimed she telephoned them from the ship, but there is no official record that she was on board.Sources suggesed that since the luxury liner hit rocks just two hours after setting sail from Civitavecchia, it was possible that the names of last-minute passengers had not yet been added to the relevant lists.But the ships purser Manrico Giampedroni ruled out that theory.It was impossible there were clandestine or unregistered people on board, he told ANSA news agency.They are registered and photographed on boarding. Its all electronic. The Costa is a serious company, he added.