Chinese President Xi
Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts after a passenger ship carrying
458 people sank Monday night in the Hubei section of China's Yangtze
River.
The ship, named Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, sank at around
9:30 p.m. after being caught in a cyclone in the Jianli section in Hubei
Province of the Yangtze River, according to the Yangtze River navigation
administration.
Xi also ordered learning lessons and enhancing measures
to ensure the safety of people's lives.
Premier Li
Keqiang, along with Vice Premier Ma
Kai and State Councilor Yang
Jing, has left for the site of the accident to direct the rescue and
emergency response work.
Li instructed a work team of the State Council
to rush to the site to guide search and rescue work. The Ministry
of Transport and other departments were ordered to mobilize all resources
available to speed up the search and rescue work and the treatment of the
rescued people.
The ship was carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency
workers and 47 crew members, according to the administration.
It was
heading from Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, to southwest
China's Chongqing city.
The rescue work is still underway.
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