Breaking through a police cordon، dozens of Chinese have marched in protest to the site of a sunken cruise ship in the Yangtze River to demand news of missing relatives.
Rescuers searched on Wednesday 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 been found alive since the ship capsized in a tornado on Monday night with 456 people on board. Just 29 bodies have been recovered.
Media reports say that the rescuers have heard shouts from the stern، and nothing since then.
Frustrated by the level of information coming from local authorities، about 80 family members hired a bus to take them from Nanjing to Jianli county in Hubei، an eight-hour journey.
They were seen walking towards the rescue site late on Wednesday evening.
The protesters later broke through a cordon of 20 to 25 paramilitary police who had tried to prevent them from going through a roadblock.
Volunteers from Jianli offered rides and water to the relatives. Some people tied yellow ribbons on their car side mirrors.
Source: Al-Jazeera