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Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Yangtze sinking: Tears and anxiety as relatives wait for news


 Family members of passengers on the ship which sank at the Jianli section of Yangtze River, in Hubei province, cry outside a closed office of Xiehe Travel in Shanghai, China, 2 June 2015

Pictures from the rescue operations:


At least five people are confirmed dead and hundreds are still missing after the Eastern Star capsized late on 1 June en route to Chongqing, in one of China's worst transport disasters in recent memory. The vessel was carrying 458 people.
The vast majority of passengers are retirees from Jiangsu province - where the ship's starting point Nanjing is located - as well as Shanghai.
Many had booked a package tour with Xiehe Travel. On Tuesday, anxious relatives gathered at the company's office in Shanghai which was shut.



More pictures of relatives waiting for news:


A relative of passengers on the ship which sank at the Jianli section of Yangtze River, in Hubei province, pulls the door of a closed office of Xiehe Travel in Shanghai, China, 2 June 2015.Relatives of passengers on board the Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" which sank en route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, mourn as they wait for information at a hotel in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on 2 June 2015.
Family members of passengers on the ship which sank at the Jianli section of Yangtze River, in Hubei province, participate in an interview outside a closed office of Xiehe Travel in Shanghai, China, 2 June 2015
A woman is helped after being pulled out by divers from a sunken ship in Jianli, Hubei province, China, 2 June 2015.In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers save a survivor, center, from the overturned passenger ship in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province Tuesday, 2 June 2015
A relative (C) of passengers on board the Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" which sank en route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, cries while talking on a mobile phone at a hotel in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on 2 June 2015A woman is helped as she is sent to hospital after being pulled out by a diver from the sunken ship in Jianli, Hubei province, China, 2 June 2015Relatives of passengers on board the Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" which sank en route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, react as they wait for information at a hotel in Nanjing, east China"s Jiangsu province on 2 June 2015
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