Yangtze: A Chinese cargo ship capsized on the Yangtze river near the eastern city of Nanjing early Thursday, but casualties were unknown, state media reported.
The incident follows modern China`s worst shipping disaster on June 1, when 442 people died after a cruise ship also capsized on the Yangtze but in the central province of Hubei.
In the latest incident, a cargo ship -- estimated to be in the 300 tonne range -- turned over and became stuck on the riverbed in Jiangsu province, state media reported.
A local radio station said on its microblog that the ship is believed to have been carrying two people.
Photos posted online showed a small group of workers in orange life jackets standing on the overturned boat, attaching a steel cable to salvage the vessel.
"There are no signs of life," Jiangsu province radio reported.
The boat was carrying the chemical sodium hydroxide -- also known as lye -- but no leakage into the river had been detected, Jiangsu television said.
The cruise ship accident took place much further up the Yangtze, China`s longest river.
Only 12 people survived when the "Eastern Star" cruise ship capsized during a storm. Reports have said the 76.5-metre-long (250 feet) and 2,200-tonne ship overturned in less than a minute.
The sinking was China`s worst shipping disaster since the Communist Party came to power in 1949. In 1948, up to 4,000 people on board the SS Kiangya were killed when it sank near Shanghai.
