Angry China families demand access to boat disaster

Rescue workers are seen next to capsized passenger ship Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" in the Yangtze river at Jianli in China's Hubei province on June 3, 2015. -AFP

SHANGHAI: Dozens of angry relatives of those missing in China’s cruise ship disaster clashed with authorities in Shanghai Wednesday, demanding answers and to be taken to the scene of the tragedy on the banks of the Yangtze.

Many of the passengers were elderly tourists from the eastern part of the country, and as hopes for finding more survivors fade two days after the disaster, their families have grown increasingly distraught.