Nation comes 3-minute standstill for victims

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-20 09:53


Tourists mourn while visiting Ti'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, May 19, 2008. Millions of people in China and overseas observed three minutes silence at 2:28 p.m. Monday to mourn thousands of people killed in an earthquake which hit southwest China's Sichuan province a week ago. Across the country, air raid sirens, cars, trains and ship horns wailed in grief as the people fell silent. [Xinhua]

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