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Pupils holding candles mourn during a silent tribute in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, 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 the nation's southwestern regions a week ago. Across the country, air raid sirens, cars, trains and ship horns wailed in grief as the people fell silent. (Xinhua/Li Yong) |
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Students and teachers mourn during a silent tribute in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, May 19, 2008.(Xinhua Photo) |
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Students mourn during a silent tribute to the people killed in the earthquake at Peking University in Beijing, capital of China, May 19, 2008.(Xinhua Photo) |
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Students and a teacher mourn during a silent tribute at a middle school classroom in Hong Kong, south China, May 19, 2008.(Xinhua Photo) |
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About 1,000 children and teachers attend a silent tribute for victims of the May 12 quake hitting southwest and northwest China, at Heqin Kindergarten in Shangyu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |
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Students of East China Jiaotong University mourn during a silent tribute in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, May 19, 2008. |
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Students of No.13 Middle School mourn during a silent tribute in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |
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Students attend a silent tribute to the people killed in the earthquake at a middle school in Beijing, capital of China, May 19, 2008.(Xinhua Photo) |
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Students of Lanzhou University mourn during a silent tribute in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |
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The students of senior 3 at Beichuan Higher Middle School attend a ceremony of resuming classs at a temporary school in quake-hit Mianyang city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |
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Some 4,000 teachers and pupils observe a three-minute silence for the quake victims, at the Experimental Primary School in Tongliao, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |
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More than 500 teachers and pupils observe a three-minute silence for the quake victims, in front of the Chinese national flag flying at half mast at Xiaoyan Town Primary School in Xiaoyan Town of Nanzhang County, central China's Hubei Province, May 19, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) |