Eastern Star

The Eastern Star capsized with mostly elderly holidaymakers on board in June, the country's worst shipping disaster for more than six decades.

Local officials widened the search scope to 1,300 kilometres of the Yangtze in the hope of finding 46 people still unaccounted for.

A total of 331 people have been confirmed dead from a cruise ship that capsized in central China after rescuers lifted the vessel out of the water, state-media said Saturday.

Chinese authorities on Friday morning began preliminary work on righting a cruise liner that capsized earlier this week with 456 people aboard, saying they had given up hope of finding more survivors.

The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star) sank on Monday night in the Jianli County, China

Hopes were fading, both at Jianli's People's Hospital and on the banks of the Yangtze where the ship capsized, of finding more survivors.

Zhang who is one of the 14 people, out of the 456 aboard, known to have survived in China's Eastern Star shipping disaster, recounts his ordeal.

Distraught family members are pleading for information on their elderly parents' fate after a ship capsized in China's Yangtze river.

Divers racing to find survivors rescued a 65-year-old woman on Tuesday after a Chinese ship sank with more than 450 mainly elderly people in the storm-tossed Yangtze river.

A passenger ship carrying more than 450 people has sunk in the Yangtze river in central China, state media reported Tuesday.

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