Seven people were dead and two were not yet to be found following an Italy ship's, Jolly Nero, crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, BBC reports. The Jolly Nero is a 240m long weighing nearly 40,600 tonnes and is owned by the Italian firm Ignazio Messina & Co.

Alan Johnston, BBC's correspondent in Rome, said that the incident is reminiscent of the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashing in the Italian Island of Giglio January of last year and that left 32 casualties. Italy had not fully recovered yet from the beating it took for the Costa Concordia incident and the same event happened again this year.

The ship, Jolly Nero, collapsed a 164ft concrete glass tower when it crashed last Tuesday around 23:00 or 21:00 GMT. There were reportedly 13 people inside the tower and there was an ongoing shift change. The Jolly Nero, on the other hand, was being directed out of the port with tugboats and on its way to Naples. Volunteers had been doing their very best to rescue possible survivors underneath debris of the tower. Some bodies were found nearby the tower's flooded elevator. Divers were tasked to search for other casualties in the water within the vicinity.

There were already 6 dead who were identified. Two of them were pilots for the port namely Maurizio Potenza and Michele Robazza and three of them were coastguards namely Fratantonio Daniel, David Morella and Marco Candussio. The sixth dead was a tugboat operator named Sergio Basso. Emergency service doctor Andrea Furgani said that "The main injuries are fractures, crushed body parts, significant traumas."

The port's night watchman told La Repubblica newspaper that, "it was an incredible sight, the control tower was leaning perilously."

Prosecutors had already conducted their investigation against the ship's captain considering probable charge of manslaughter.

Other officials, though, had leaned towards the angle of mechanical failure as the cause of the ship's crashing. Italian Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi said that there was a possible defect with the ship's

The ship was now impounded and its black box already in the custody of the investigating officers.

The head of the Gemoa Port Authority had already talked to different local media saying that "It's very difficult to explain how this could have happened because the ship should not have been where it was. Two tug boats were moving the vessel, there was a port pilot on board and sea conditions were perfect. It's a terrible tragedy. We're in turmoil, speechless."

Even Jolly Nero's owner Stefano Messina who immediately came to the port minutes after the crash was reported had tears running in his cheeks while he emotionally talks to the media, "We are all utterly shocked. Nothing like this has ever happened before, we are desperate."

Mayor Marco Doria said that Genoa is the country's busiest port and an average of 14 accidents happen in a year's time, but the Jolly Nero incidents on Tuesday was something unique and that something as unpredictable as it was had not happened before.