Millions of people in China and overseas observed three minutes silence at 2:28 pm Monday to mourn thousands of people killed in an earthquake which hit the nation's on May 12.
It was exactly one week after the devastating 8.0-magnitude tremor hit Wenchuan County and its neighboring areas in southwest China's Sichuan Province, claiming 34,073 lives, 3,304 of them died in hospitals as of 12:00 am on Monday. Another 245,108 people were injured.
Rescuers pay tribute to those who died in a massive earthquake, in front of a clock which stopped at the time the earthquake hit, in the township of Hanwang in Mianzhu city, north of Chengdu in Sichuan Province May 19, 2008. A nation-wide ceremony was held on 14:28 on Monday, exactly one week after a massive earthquake hit Sichuan. [Agencies]
The three-minute remembrance is part of three-day national mourning for those who died in the killer earthquake.
National flags will fly at half mast,
the Olympic torch relay suspended
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