Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered that no efforts be spared in rescue work, although the official Xinhua news agency said bad weather was making rescue efforts more difficult.
Premier Li Keqiang was heading to the scene of the accident in central Hubei province, Xinhua said on Tuesday.
Xinhua, citing the Yangtze River navigation administration, said those rescued from the Eastern Star included the ship's captain and engineer, who said the vessel sank quickly after being caught in what it said was a cyclone.
State radio reported that the ship sank within about two minutes and that no distress call had been issued. About 20 people had been rescued, Xinhua said later on Tuesday.
The official People's Daily said seven people had swum to shore to raise the alarm...
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2/6/15
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Over 1,000 troops sent for ferry rescue ..
ReplyDeleteMore than 1,000 armed police officers have been dispatched to the site where a passenger ship carrying 458 people sank in the Yangtze River in central Hubei Province on Monday night.
Equipped with 40 inflatable boats, the officers from the Hubei Armed Police Corps have been conducting rescue work since Tuesday morning.
The ship, named Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, sank at around 9:28 pm after being caught in a cyclone in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, according to the Yangtze River navigation administration.
Carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency workers and 47 crew members, the ship was heading from Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, to southwest China's Chongqing city.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/924870.shtml
2/6/15
Captain, chief engineer of sunken ship in custody...
ReplyDeleteRescuers are scrambling to find survivors from a cruise ship that sank with 458 people aboard during a storm on China's Yangtze River, authorities said.
The rescue workers have heard sounds from within the capsized ship and are trying to reach the people they believe are inside the cabin, state media reported Tuesday.
Twelve survivors have been rescued so far and five bodies have been recovered from the ship, which sank late Monday, according to the Hubei Daily, a state-run newspaper.
The survivors include the captain and chief engineer, who have been taken into custody by police, China's state-run broadcaster CCTV reported.
But the fates of the hundreds of other people on the ship was unclear.
Images from the scene showed the ship upside down in the river, a section of its hull protruding above the surface of the water......CNN
Mau tempo dificulta resgate após naufrágio na China...
ReplyDeleteVentos muito fortes e chuva estão a dificultar as operações de resgate após o naufrágio de um barco com 458 pessoas a bordo no rio Yangzte, na China.
O naufrágio do "Dongfangzhixing" ocorreu segunda-feira às 21.28 horas (14.28 horas em Portugal continental), quando o navio foi atingido por ventos de 130 quilómetros à hora. A bordo estavam mais de 400 passageiros e 47 tripulantes que seguiam de Nanjing para Chongqing.
Horas depois as autoridades conseguiram localizar a zona do naufrágio e enviaram mais de 30 navios para as operações de resgate, indicou a agencia noticiosa oficial chinesa Xinhua.
Segundo a edição online do "Diário do Povo", até cerca das 07.00 horas desta terça-feira (00.00 horas em Portugal continental) já tinham sido resgatadas 35 pessoas, mais 25 do que a agência noticiosa oficial Xinhua referiu três horas depois. Foram também recuperados cinco corpos, segundo a agência Reuters.
Entre os sobreviventes estão o capitão e o engenheiro-chefe da embarcação. Segundo eles, o navio afundou-se "no espaço de um ou dois minutos", disse a Xinhua.............jn.pt
2/6/14
Rescuers working to free five more from capsized China ship ...
ReplyDeleteRescuers are working to save five more passengers trapped inside the hull of a passenger ship that capsized on China's Yangtze River with 458 people on board, the official People's Daily said on its microblog on Tuesday.
A 65-year-old woman was pulled alive from the wreck, although state media had earlier given her age as 85.
Five bodies have been recovered from the ship that capsized late on Monday. Rescuers are working in bad weather to find more survivors.
jpost.com BY REUTERS
China boat sinking casts pall over country's ship safety record ...
ReplyDeleteThe sinking of a cruise boat on China's Yangtze River is likely to mar the country's generally clean maritime safety record, which hasn't suffered an incident of this magnitude since a passenger steamship blew up almost 70 years ago.
The Eastern Star, which was carrying 458 people, capsized in a storm late on Monday, state media said, with those on board ranging in age from three to more than 80. Six bodies have been found and over a dozen people rescued, but more than 430 are still unaccounted for.....Reuters.......todayonline.com