DHAKA: Family members of some of the hundreds of passengers aboard a capsized Chinese cruise boat scuffled with officials in Shanghai on Tuesday, angry that they were not being told what happened to the vessel and their loved ones.

About 60 people, many of them relatives of tourists on the Eastern Star cruise boat that capsized in the Yangtze River in a storm late on Monday, had initially gathered at a travel agency office that handled the bookings for the cruise.

That was locked and they were later escorted to the Shanghai local government office building where they were asked to wait inside a room.

Scuffles broke out when a group of relatives, furious over the lack of information being given to them, started demanding more answers from officials.

‘We’re extremely anxious,’ said Zhang Yingli, 56, whose brother and wife were on the boat, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1703 HRS, JUN 01, 2015
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