• Rescuers standing Thursday on the overturned hull of the Eastern Star carry the body of a victim of the cruise ship's capsizing in Jianli, central China's Hubei province, before a giant floating crane begins work to right the vessel. Relatives of more than 400 people believed trapped inside the ship gathered at the disaster site as rescuers breached the hull in a last-ditch search for the missing. | AFP-JIJI
    Rescuers standing Thursday on the overturned hull of the Eastern Star carry the body of a victim of the cruise ship's capsizing in Jianli, central China's Hubei province, before a giant floating crane begins work to right the vessel. Relatives of more than 400 people believed trapped inside the ship gathered at the disaster site as rescuers breached the hull in a last-ditch search for the missing. | AFP-JIJI

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JIANLI, CHINA – Chinese authorities began late on Thursday to right the cruise ship Eastern Star, which capsized on the Yangtze River, after divers sent to search for survivors found no signs of life inside.

With only 14 survivors found, including the captain and chief engineer, since the ship carrying 456 people overturned during a freak tornado on Monday night, the rescue mission has now become an operation to recover hundreds of bodies.

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