BEIJING: A passenger ship carrying more than 450 people has sunk in the Yangtze river in central China, state media reported Tuesday.
The ship named Dongfangzhixing, or “Eastern Star”, was headed from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing when it sank in the Jianli section of the river, in Hubei province, on Monday evening, Xinhua said.
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