Heartbroken Husband Searching for Wife Who Pushed Him Out of Sinking Chinese Ship(Photo)

A husband  is heart broken after his wife who pushed him to safety disappeared with the ship which sank with 458 people.  One of the first survivors of the Yangtze ferry disaster has spoken of the terrifying moment the ship sank and how he became separated from his wife.

Wu Jianqiang, 58, was the first person to call police to tell them that he, his wife and other elderly passengers were on the ship.

He wept as he described how his wife pushed him out of the ferry so that he could be rescued, reported the People's Daily Online.Mr Wu has not heard any news about his wife since and is fearing the worst.

He has been reunited with his son and family members, who rushed over from Tianjin in the north east of the country to Jianli in central China to join him.