Frantic rescue efforts continue in China boat tragedy

Rescuers fought bad weather yesterday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat capsized on the Yangtze River.

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

Divers and other rescue workers pulled five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the four-deck Eastern Star, a fraction of the 458 people state media reported were on board when the ship capsized.