{"id":121284,"date":"2015-06-02T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=121284"},"modified":"2015-06-02T06:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T06:41:21","slug":"hundreds-missing-as-china-ship-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/hundreds-missing-as-china-ship-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds missing as China ship sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five people have died and hundreds are missing after a cruise ship carrying 458 people capsized on the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei province.<\/p>\n
The ship is floating upside down in a wide stretch of river – state media said rescuers tapping the hull had heard calls for help from inside.<\/p>\n
The boat, the Eastern Star, reportedly sent no emergency signal.<\/p>\n
Media reports say the alarm was raised by several people who had swum to shore and alerted the police.<\/p>\n
Most of those on board were tourists aged around 50 to 80 travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing in the south-west – a journey of at least 1,500km (930 miles).<\/p>\n