Captain of capsized Chinese vessel detained

Pulse Staff 02:43 - 02 June 2015

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

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.

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