CHINA-SHIP/EVENING-BODY Body brought to shore after ship sank in China's Yangtze River

Record ID: 149958

  • Title: CHINA-SHIP/EVENING-BODY Body brought to shore after ship sank in China's Yangtze River
  • Date: 2nd June 2015
  • Summary: JIANLI COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA (JUNE 2, 2015) (REUTERS) RESCUE WORKERS WALKING OVER CROSSING BETWEEN SHORE AND RESCUE SHIP RESCUE SHIP IN THE DISTANCE RESCUE SHIP RESCUE WORKERS WALKING OVER CROSSING RESCUE WORKERS ON SHIP SHIP BEHIND POLICE TAPE VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS REMOVING BODY FROM SHIP RESCUE WORKERS ON SHORE VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS BRINGING BODY ONTO SHO
  • Embargoed: 17th June 2015 13:00
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA51DMA0R5A0QZ58UZ8KMBQA1MJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A body was removed from a rescue ship on the Yangtze River on Tuesday (June 2) evening as rescuers continued to work to locate survivors after a tourist boat sank.
    More than 400 people were on board the tourist boat when a freak tornado capsized the vessel in a stretch of the river in Jianli County, in central Hubei Province.
    Many of the passengers were elderly Chinese tourists.
    The accident on Monday (June 1) night is likely to be China's worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years.
    Rescue operations appeared extended late into Tuesday night with paramilitary vehicles, dozens of police and soldiers as well as medical and meteorological trucks surrounding the site.
    Battling bad weather, divers and other rescue workers pulled five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the four-deck Eastern Star, a fraction of the 458 people state media reported were on board when the ship capsized.
    About another dozen people had been rescued and six bodies recovered, media reported, leaving more than 430 people unaccounted for.
    Dozens of rescue boats battled wind and rain enveloping the southern section of Asia's longest river to reach the ship, which lay upturned in water some 15 metres (50 feet) deep.
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