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by Poornima WEERASEKARA HENAN, China (AFP) — Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu, a region fed by a tributary of China’s heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious “cancer villages”. Residents often faced a bitter choice: drink dirty, discolored water and risk sickness, or pay high prices for bottled water and risk poverty. But artist-turned-environmentalist Huo Yalun has been on a […]
JUNE 11 (Reuters) — A total of 342 victims from capsized ship on the Yangtze River have been identified as of 09:00 Thursday after their DNA matching process were finished, according to police officers in central China’s Hubei Province. About 170 legal medical experts and technicians have been allocated for body identification work in Jianli, Jingzhou, and Wuhan in Hubei after the 2,200-ton-“Eastern Star” sank in the river with 456 passengers and crews on board […]
JUNE 7 (CCTV/Reuters) — The death toll from the sinking of a Chinese cruise ship on the Yangtze River during freak weather had climbed to 431 by 11:00 on Sunday, with 11 still unaccounted for, according to the rescue headquarters in Jianli, central China’s Hubei Province. “According to the latest statistics, by 11:00 on June 7 (Sunday), 431 bodies of the victims had been retrieved; there are 14 survivors, and 11 still remained missing. Relative […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — A passenger ship carrying 458 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, sank in the Yangtze River in a storm late on Monday (June 1) and only about 20 had been rescued so far, state media said, in what could be one of China’s worst disasters for years. Some passengers are still alive inside the ship, the micro blog of the official People’s Daily newspaper said. Chinese President Xi Jinping has […]
