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/ 19 May 2008

China mourns earthquake victims

From tent cities in stricken Sichuan province to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, sirens wailed and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn tens of thousands who died in last week’s earthquake. The moment was observed across the vast country of 1,3-billion people at 2.28pm local time, exactly a week after the quake struck.