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The death toll in the capsizing of a cruise ship in China's Yangtze River has risen to just under 400, making it the deadliest maritime disaster in seven decades in the country.

 news agency says hundreds more bodies have been recovered since the overturned Eastern Star was righted on Friday, bringing the total confirmed dead to 396. Among the newly recovered bodies was that of a 3-year-old girl.


Only 14 people have been found alive and another 46 remain missing of the 456 aboard when the sudden, severe winds on Monday caused the disaster, according to Xinhua. Authorities have placed the captain and his first engineer in custody.

The Associated Press says: "Passengers' relatives have raised questions about whether the ship should have continued its cruise after the storm started in a section of Hubei province and despite a weather warning earlier in the evening."

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The cruise ship, which was righted on Friday, capsized on Monday in the Yangtze River with 456 people aboard.

Official death toll in China's 'Eastern Star' disaster rises to nearly 400

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