Village bids farewell to woman whose son died in Ya'an quake

Residents of Qinglongchang, a village in Lushan county, Sichuan province, gathered together to bid farewell to Zhang Zhirong on Monday morning at her burial.

Zhang, 40, took pesticide on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first known suicide in the aftermath of the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Ya'an, a city that administers Lushan, on April 20.

The disaster left 193 people dead, 25 missing and 12,211 injured.