Some passengers still alive in capsized Chinese ship - People's Daily


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  • Tuesday, 02 Jun 2015

Rescuers work on the capsized passenger ship in the Yangtze River, searching for missing passengers in Jianli, Hubei province, China, 02 June 2015.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Some passengers are still alive inside a ship that capsized in China's Yangtze River on Monday night, the microblog of the official People's Daily newspaper said.

The ship carrying 458 people sank during a storm and only 12 people had been rescued so far, state media reported on Tuesday, in what could be one of China's worst disasters for years.

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