CORFU, Greece—Firefighters battling for a third day a blaze on a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy recovered on Sunday the body of a passenger listed as missing, Greek authorities said. It is the first reported fatality after rescuers managed to take at least 281 out of 292 passengers and crew to safety from a blaze which broke out on the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia early on Friday. The ferry had been on its way to the Italian port of Brindisi from Igoumenitsa in Greece when it was engulfed by flames off the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. Many of the passengers were truck owners or drivers transporting goods through Europe. The dead man was found in the cabin of a truck in the ship’s hold and had suffered serious burns, a fire brigade official said. A total of 10 people, all Bulgarian, Turkish, and Greek nationals, are still …
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