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Tuesday update: Yangtze cruise ship search and rescue mission

Xinhua, June 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

No more bodies were found on Tuesday as the Eastern Star search and rescue mission on the Yangtze River continued, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Rescuers are searching an area of 22,500 square meters surrounding the site of last week's fatal incident.

Three suspicious targets had been located, identified and removed by divers as of 1:00 p.m., according to the ministry's report.

"I found nothing except stones," said Wang Bibi, one of the six divers.

With 434 bodies recovered, eight people remain missing.

The search and rescue headquarters on Monday said it would move the ship as soon as weather and water conditions are favorable. Endi