(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) The final death toll rose to 442 as the last bodies were found from a riverboat that sank in China's Yangtze River two
weeks ago, dpa cited a news report as saying Sunday.
Only 12 people survived the country's worst shipping disaster in
decades on the boat that had 454 people on board, Xinhua news agency
quoted Tang Guanjun, director of the Yangtze River navigation affairs
administration, as saying.
The Eastern Star was taking passengers on a cruise from Nanjing in
eastern China to the south-western city of Chongqing when it sank
in bad weather on June 1 in Jianli, of Hubei province.
An investigation into the cause of the capsize is still underway.
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