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Disaster on the Yangtze River (PHOTOS)

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Rescue workers carry a body from the sunken ship. Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was buffeted by a freak tornado and then capsized on the Yangtze River.

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A family member of passengers on the ship cries outside a closed office of Xiehe Travel in Shanghai. 

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Divers pulled this 65-year-old woman from the hull of the passenger ship carrying 458 people that capsized on China's Yangtze River and others could still be alive, state media said on Tuesday.

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An aerial view of rescue workers searching on the sunken ship at Jianli section of Yangtze River, Hubei province, China.

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Chinese rescue workers use listening devices to detect survivors inside the capsized Dongfangzhixing or “Eastern Star” vessel, which sank in the Yangtze river in Jianli, central China’s Hubei province.

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Paramilitary soldiers in raincoats watch a sunken ship and rescue ship in the Jianli section of Yangtze River, Hubei province, China.

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A family member of passengers on the sunken ship cries outside a closed office of Xiehe Travel in Shanghai, China.

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Rescue workers carry a body from the sunken ship in the Jianli section of Yangtze River, Hubei province, China.

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Relatives of a missing passenger aboard a sunken ship walk on the bank of Yangtze River in Jianli section, Hubei province, China.

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