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广播听力:Eastern Star Death Toll Reaches 396

Source: CRI    2015-06-07  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

 

The grim task of recovering the bodies of those killed in Monday's deadly capsizing on the Yangtze River is still underway, with the official death toll standing at 396.

46 others remain missing.

CRI's Xie Cheng has more.

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The Eastern Star was carrying 456 people on an 11-day trip up the river from Nanjing to Chongqing when it capsized near the small community of Jianli in Hubei.

The ship, said to have been hit by a tornado around 9 in the evening on Monday, took only around a minute to capsize.

Most of the passengers on the ship, elderly sight-seers from the Shanghai area, had already gone to bed when the storm hit.

Of the 456 people onb