Some still alive inside capsised ship on China’s Yangtze River

Some passengers are still alive inside the hull of a passenger ship carrying 458 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, that capsised on the Yangtze River, in what could be one of China’s worst disasters for years. Five bodies had been recovered since the ship capsized in a storm late on Monday, state media said. Only about a dozen people had been rescued so far from the four-decked tourist boat amid confusing reports about how many had been saved. The microblog of the official People’s Daily newspaper said some passengers were still inside the Eastern Star, while the official Xinhua news agency said rescuers could hear people calling for help from inside the four-deck ship. The captain and the chief engineer of the Eastern Star, who were among the few to be rescued, had been detained by police for questioning. Among those on board the ship were 406 tourists, aged from around 50 to 80, on a tour organized by a Shanghai tour group, and 47 crew members

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