Story highlights The captain and the chief engineer are in custody, state media report

Ten other survivors and five bodies have been recovered from the vessel

The ship went down late Monday during a storm, according to authorities

Hong Kong (CNN) Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors from a cruise ship that sank with 458 people aboard during a storm on China's Yangtze River, authorities said.

The rescue workers have heard sounds from within the capsized ship and are trying to reach the people they believe are inside the cabin, state media reported Tuesday.

Twelve survivors have been rescued so far and five bodies have been recovered from the ship, which sank late Monday, according to the Hubei Daily, a state-run newspaper.

The survivors include the captain and chief engineer, who have been taken into custody by police, China's state-run broadcaster CCTV reported.

But the fates of the hundreds of other people on the ship was unclear.

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