Ship disaster in Yangtze River: Roundup of updates
Updated: 2015-06-03 11:19
(chinadaily.com.cn)
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1. By 9:30 am Wednesday, 14 are confirmed dead, 14 have been found alive and 428 passengers remain missing after the worst recorded ship disaster on the Yangtze River.
2. Two bodies were found on 3:49 am and 4:07 am on Wednesday. The search and rescue operations continued overnight.
Rescue workers are seen atop the sunken ship in the Jianli section of Yangtze River, Hubei province, China, June 3, 2015. Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was buffeted by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River. [Photo/Agencies] |
3. Search teams have cut open holes on the overturned hull.
4. Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday paid tribute to those killed in the worst recorded ship disaster on the Yangtze River. Li came to the rescue site Wednesday morning in heavy rain and bowed to the bodies of the deceased.
Premier Li Keqiang (C) bows before bodies of those who died in the worst recorded ship disaster on the Yangtze River. [Provided to chinadaily.com.cn] |
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