Nation pauses to pay tribute to victims
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Left: With a chrysanthemum flower in hand, retired worker Duan Jinshen shows his sorrow at Tian'anmen Square yesterday. Wang Qingqin Right: A worker clearing the blocked Baoji-Chengdu highway stops work for three minutes yesterday to mourn those killed by last week's earthquake. Ding Haitao |
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National and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region flags are lowered to half mast at the Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong yesterday. Wang Linan |
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Teachers and students at the Islamic Scripture College of Ningxia, with their palms up, pray for the quake victims yesterday. Liu Quanlong |
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A taxi driver in Beijing cries while standing beside his car honking the horn for three minutes to honor earthquake victims yesterday. AP |
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Peng Hao (right), wrapped in a blanket left by his late father who died in the deadly quake, mourns in Mianyang, Sichuan, yesterday. Crying beside him is his aunt. Yang Shiyao |
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Students in Harbin hold a vigil to pay tribute to quake victims yesterday. Li Yong |
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Tibetans stand still with their heads bowed during a three-minute silence at the Potala Palace square in Lhasa yesterday. Xinhua |
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Rescuers stand still duirng three minutes of silence to pay tribute to quake victims in Hanwang town, Sichuan, yesterday. Behind them stands a tower clock whose hands stopped when the magnitude-8 earthquake hit at 2:28 pm on Monday last week. Wang Jianhua |
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Students stand in the form of a heart and 5.12, the date of the earthquake, at a high school in Ruian of Zhejiang province yesterday. Xinhua |
(China Daily 05/20/2008 page6)
