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Prioritize saving lives, premier tells Yangtze rescuers

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Prioritize saving lives, premier tells Yangtze rescuers

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang presides over a meeting of search and rescue work of the overturned ship in Jianli County, central China’s Hubei Province, June 2, 2015. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, sank at around 9:28 p.m. (1328 GMT) on Monday in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River. Carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency workers and 47 crew members, the ship was heading from Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, for southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)