Memorial remembers sacrifices of firefighters in Xichang

A ceremony commemorating the sacrifices of firefighters and a guide was held in the Xichang Funeral Home in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province on Saturday, also the Tomb-Sweeping Day this year.

Some 280 people, including the relatives of the 19 victims and local residents, participated in the ceremony, according to the publicity department of the Xichang municipal committee of the Communist Party of China.

When the vehicles carried the bodies of the victims to the funeral home on Saturday morning, tens of thousands of local residents lined the streets in Xichang to bid farewell, the department said.