Sirens Wail As People of China Fall Silent to Mourn Dead
Evening Standard - London › May 19, 2008
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FLAGS flew at half-mast across China today as the country's 1.3 billion population observed a three-minute silence in honour of the victims of the earthquake.
Officials asked for the horns of cars, trains, ships and air raid sirens to "wail in grief " as everyone fell silent at 2.28pm local time exactly one week after the massive tremor flattened thousands of buildings.See the full content of this document
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Sirens Wail As People of China Fall Silent to Mourn Dead
It came as more than 200 relief workers were buried by a mudslide in Sichuan province. The official Xinhua news agency said it did not have any other details of th...
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