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Tugboats were finally able on Friday to tow the ill-fated Norman Atlantic to the port of Brindisi in Italy, allowing rescue teams to search the Greek-hired passenger ferry that caught fire on Sunday as it was traveling from Greece to Italy.

A missing Turkish passenger aboard the ferry in the Adriatic Sea that burnt down called his family in Turkey, saying he was on one of the lifeboats, but has not been heard from since.

The stricken Norman Atlantic ferry is expected to reach the Italian port of Brindisi on Friday as the effort to establish the exact number of passengers who were on board and how many are missing continues.

Ten passengers dead, dozen unaccounted for and no-one able to say with any certainty how many people were on board the Norman Atlantic when it burst into flames.
      
A Greek ferry tragedy in the Adriatic appeared to be turning into a murder mystery on Tuesday as a fiasco over the accuracy of the passenger list added to questions over safety systems aboard.
      

All passengers and crew were evacuated from the stranded Norman Atlantic ferry on Monday, as 10 deaths were confirmed, but rescue teams continued searching in the Adriatic Sea amid concern that dozens of people who were on board the ship may be missing.

Greece's Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias could not confirm on Monday claims made by a passenger rescued from the stranded Norman Atlantic ferry that four people had died on the vessel.

Rescue teams working through the night have pulled 265 people off a stricken car ferry which caught fire off the coast of Greece but more than 200 are stranded on board, the Italian navy said on Monday.

A rescue effort aimed at helping dozens of passengers, including many Greeks, off a ferry stranded in the Adriatic Sea near Corfu was continuing on Sunday night in treacherous conditions.

Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Sunday evening that one Greek had died amid the rescue attempts. Authorities named him as Yiorgos Doulis, a passenger.