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Passengers' families march to China shipwreck site as survivor hopes fade

Premier Li oversees rescue efforts; only 29 bodies recovered so far

Published Thu, Jun 4, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Jianli, China

DOZENS of people broke through a police cordon on Wednesday as they marched towards the site of a sunken cruise ship in the Yangtze River to demand news of missing relatives.

Rescuers searched for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly, but hopes were fading of finding more survivors from the worst shipping disaster in modern Chinese history.

Only 14 people, including the ship's captain, have…

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