Rescuers have cut three more people from the wreckage of a capsized Chinese cruise ship as workers battle to find more than 400 people still missing after the boat sank in the storm-tossed Yangtze river.

A total of 15 people have so far been saved from the Dongfangzhixing, or ‘Eastern Star,’ which went down late Monday on the popular tourist route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Six bodies have also been recovered from the wreckage, but hundreds more are still missing after the passenger ship apparently sank in a matter of seconds with 458 people on board, state media said on Tuesday.State broadcaster CCTV showed rescue workers carrying an elderly woman on a stretcher who was covering her own face.

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