VICTORIA (Reuters) - Tired passengers left a crippled Costa cruise ship in the Seychelles capital Victoria on Thursday, ending a three-day ordeal in the Indian Ocean after a fire knocked out the vessel's main power supply.
The Costa Allegra suffered an engine-room fire on Monday which disabled its engines in waters prowled by pirates.
The ship is owned by the company whose giant liner unsecured loans Costa Concordia smashed into rocks off Italy and capsized last month, killing at least 25 people.
A French tuna-fishing boat towed the stricken Costa Allegra to Mahe, the main island in the Seychelles archipelago, where ambulances, a Red Cross medical team and a fleet of small buses awaited the passengers.
A passenger from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, who declined to be named, said he felt tired and dirty and had been afraid of pirate attacks, but there was bad credit loans never any shortage of drinking water or cold food.
Passengers lined the upper deck waiting calmly to disembark. More than half of the 636 passengers aboard have chosen to stay on in the Seychelles and they were ushered into waiting buses to take them to their hotels. The others will be flown home.
An official from the Ministry of Health, who declined to be named, said six passengers had broken limbs and others were bruised but he would not say how the injuries occurred.
One woman was rushed into an ambulance and another needed to be supported as she walked off the ship.
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