JIANLI, China – The Eastern Star’s top-deck cabins with smashed blue roofs jutted out of grey water Friday after Chinese ******** teams righted the ******** river cruiser to ease the search for more than 340 people still missing. So far, 97 bodies have been found.

Crews worked on draining water from the ship, which was still mostly submerged in the Yangtze River, as the focus shifted from finding ********* to retrieving bodies trapped in the vessel after it ******** suddenly during a storm Monday night on the trip from Nanjing to Chongqing.

Chinese authorities have attributed the ******** to sudden high winds just before 9:30 p.m., but also have placed the surviving captain and first engineer under ****** custody. Passengers’ relatives have raised questions about whether the boat should have continued on after the storm started and despite a weather warning earlier in the evening.

In a sign of potential unrest among the hundreds of relatives who have descended on the small Hubei province county of Jianli, one distraught family member burst into a gathering of journalists to complain about their treatment and demand an ************* into possible ***********.

“All the emphasis is on a natural ******** … but we think that this is unjust,” said Xia Yunchen, a 70-year-old university lecturer. “Apart from natural ******** were there other causes? Is this not rational to ask?”

Xia, whose older brother Xia Qinchen, from the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, was a passenger, demanded that relatives be allowed to view their loved ones’ bodies before they are cremated. In past disasters, authorities have instead cremated bodies and delivered ashes to the *******’ families, in keeping with the tight management of the ********* of disasters and fears of spiraling unrest.

“Why do you view the common people as your enemies?” Xia cried out. “There’s no human feeling, can’t we change this habit?”

Many of the more than 450 people on board the cruise ship were reported to be retirees taking in the Yangtze’s scenic vistas. With 97 confirmed **** and more than 340 missing, the capsizing is likely to become the country’s deadliest boat ******** in seven decades. The 14 ********* of the capsizing including three pulled by divers from air pockets in the overturned boat on Tuesday after rescuers tapped the hull and heard responding yells from inside.

Cranes righted the boat Friday morning after some 50 divers attach chains to it overnight, Transportation Ministry spokesman Xu Chengguang said, adding that ******** teams would now focus on draining off water, and finding and identifying bodies. Divers also found more bodies overnight, bringing the ***** toll to 97, Xu said.

****** and paramilitary troops stationed on the riverbank have blocked access to the site, and authorities have tightly controlled media coverage.

Records show the ******** ship was cited for safety violations during an inspection in 2013, according to a Nanjing’s Maritime Safety report, which didn’t specify the violations.

The shallow-draft boat was not designed to withstand winds as heavy as an ocean-going vessel can. Weather authorities have said the storm the boat encountered had winds up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour.

China’s deadliest maritime ******** in recent decades was the Dashun ferry, which caught **** and ******** off Shandong province in ******** 1999, ******* about 280.

The Eastern Star ******** could become the country’s ***** since the sinking of the SS Kiangya off Shanghai in 1948, which is believed to have ****** anywhere from 2,750 to nearly 4,000 people.