Death toll jumps to 345 in China's Yangtze River capsizing
State broadcaster CCTV says 345 bodies have been found.
JIANLI (AP) - Chinese state media say the death toll in the Eastern Star capsizing has risen to 345.
Disaster teams have found hundreds more bodies overnight and Saturday morning after pulling the overturned river cruise boat upright with cranes and gradually raising it up from the gray currents of the Yangtze River.
State broadcaster CCTV says 345 bodies have been found. That leaves nearly 100 still missing.
The boat with 456 overturned Monday night in what authorities have attributed to sudden severe winds.
Fourteen people survived, including the captain and first engineer who have been placed under police custody.
