Ship sank in the Yangtze River in China Monday June 01,2015

 

'Eastern Star' vessel sank in the Yangtze river in Jianli, central China's Hubei provinceand  rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday June 02,2015as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists

The accident on Monday night is likely to end up as China's worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years.

Dozens of rescue boats battled wind and rain to reach the ship, which lay upturned in water about 15 meters (50 feet) deep.

Divers and other rescue workers pulled five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the four-deck Eastern Star