China Cruise Ship Disaster

China cruise ship disaster.

China cruise ship disaster. Flashback in history. Disaster teams have found hundreds more bodies on. The vessel was carrying 405 passengers 5 travel agents and 48 crew on a holiday cruise up the Yangtze.

Capsized cruise ship death toll over 400 in China. HUNDREDS of bodies have been retrieved from Chinese waters after a nightmare cruise ship crash left more than 400 dead. Just offshore lay the upended shell of the Eastern Star a luxury cruise ship that was carrying 458 people including dozens of elderly tourists and a three-year-old boy when it capsized and sank.

Death Toll Passes 100 More Than 300 Still Missing. The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze river jumped to 396 on Saturday. China cruise ship disaster MV Dongfang zhi Xing Eastern Star 1 June 2015.

Chinas deadliest maritime disaster in recent decades was when the Dashun ferry caught fire and capsized off Shandong province in November 1999 killing about 280. China cruise ship disaster MV Dongfang zhi Xing Eastern Star on 1 June 2015. Hundreds Killed After China Cruise Ship Disaster.

A total of 77 people have been confirmed dead since the cruiseliner sank in Hubei provinces Jianli county but hundreds more are still missing and fears are mounting this could turn into Chinas. A survivor C-green top is rescued by divers from the Dongfangzhixing or Eastern Star vessel which sank in the Yangtze river. Chinas deadliest passenger ship disaster in recent memory is believed to be the capsizing of the ferry Dashun off the coast of eastern Shandong province in 1999.

China Cruise Ship Disaster. The four-deck Eastern Star was on its way from the city of Nanjing to the city of Chongqing on Monday night when it encountered a severe storm and overturned. A week ago Monday the Eastern Star a passenger ship on a pleasure cruise along a stretch of the Yangtze that winds through central Chinas Hubei province went down during a storm.