Scuba divers searching for the last two missing victims of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster have found human remains aboard the wrecked hull, Italian authorities say.
The remains "could be ascribable to the persons we are looking for," the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, told the SkyTG24 news channel.
"Only DNA testing will be able to confirm it," he added.
Indicating that the analyses would be carried out "in the coming hours," Gabrielli urged caution.
"Nothing is definite, let us wait for the exams," he said.
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Thirty-two of the 4229 people on board the vessel died after it ran aground off the island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.
But the bodies of Indian waiter Russel Rebello and Italian passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi were never found.
Gabrielli said it was "almost a miracle" that they could be identified 20 months after the disaster.
The search for the victims resumed on Tuesday, a week after the Concordia was righted from the half-capsized state it laid in after crashing against rocks.
