World Bulletin / News Desk

The captain and chief engineer of a vessel carrying 458 people that capsized on the Yangtze River in southern China have been detained by police for questioning, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on its official microblog on Tuesday.

It gave no other details.

The ship capsized in a storm late on Monday. Only about a dozen people have been rescued so far.

Five bodies recovered from capsized ship

Five bodies have been recovered so far from a ship that capsized on the Yangtze River in southern China with 458 people on board, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The official Hubei Daily said on its microblog that 12 survivors had also been rescued.

The ship capsized late on Monday. Many of those on board are elderly Chinese tourists.