At least six people have been confirmed dead and hundreds are still missing after a cruise ship carrying 458 passengers capsized during a cyclone on the Yangtze River in central China.<\/p>\n
Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that rescuers have recovered six bodies from the wreckage after “Eastern Star”, a tourist boat rapidly overturned late Monday in China’s Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Sources say rescue workers have so far managed to rescue only 14 people as fears are mounting over life of 438 people still missing.<\/p>\n
Most of those on board were tourists travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing in southwest (\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least six people have been confirmed dead and hundreds are still missing after a cruise ship carrying 458 passengers capsized during a cyclone on the Yangtze River in central China. Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that rescuers have recovered six bodies from the wreckage after “Eastern Star”, a tourist boat rapidly overturned late Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[496,308,497,498,499],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asia-and-oceania","tag-central-china","tag-dead","tag-hundreds","tag-ship-sank","tag-still-missing"],"yoast_head":"\n