As the known death toll from the Yangtze river cruiser rises to 77, there are angry scenes in Jianli as relatives say they cannot view victims' bodies The boat powered south under a leaden sky, towards the scene of China's worst marine catastrophe since Mao Zedong's Red Army swept to power in 1949. Ahead lay the wreck of the Eastern Star, the cruise ship that capsized and sank on Monday night, plunging its 456 occupants - many of them elderly tourists - into the Yangtze's gloomy swell.
As the known death toll from the Yangtze river cruiser rises to 77, there are angry scenes in Jianli as relatives say they cannot view victims' bodies The boat powered south under a leaden sky, towards the scene of China's worst marine catastrophe since Mao Zedong's Red Army swept to power in 1949. Ahead lay the wreck of the Eastern Star, the cruise ship that capsized and sank on Monday night, plunging its 456 occupants - many of them elderly tourists - into the Yangtze's gloomy swell.
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