Costa Concordia reaches ship breaking yard in Italian mainland after five-day towing operation

The shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner was towed into the city of Genoa recently where it is due to be scrapped.

After being pulled in by tugboats the wreck was moored ready to be cut up for scrap metal.

The wreckage was where 32 people died after the cruise liner struck a reef when its captain sailed too close to Giglio Island off Tuscany's coast in January 2012.

The ship claimed another life in February this year when one of the rescue divers working to salvage it bled to death after cutting his leg on metal in the water, bringing the death toll to 33.

An aerial view as the Costa Concordia as it is dragged into the harbour of Genoa Tuesday July 29,2014

After being pulled in by tugboats the wreck was moored ready to be cut up for scrap metal