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07-04-2009, 03:14 AM

Crowds gathered in the devastated city of Chengdu shouted "Farewell, friends!" and
"Rebuild!" as China began three days of national mourning Monday to honor the tens of
thousands killed by last week's massive earthquake.
　　The death toll in worst-hit Sichuan province, wow power
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hurt, Chinese government officials said Monday. Authorities have estimated that the final
death toll could reach 50,000, while millions more people have been left homeless by the
disaster.
　　Traffic halted, work stopped and people bowed their heads across the country to
observe three minutes of silence as air raid sirens, car, truck and train horns sounded a
"wail of grief" at 2:28 p.m. (0628 GMT), exactly one week since the earthquake struck.
Even rescue workers paused from the job of clearing debris and searching for survivors to
mark the moment.
　　In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, the three minutes was followed by shouts of
support for the recovery effort, CNN correspondent Eunice Yoon said.
　　"During the moment of silence they were all holding hands, some of them were
weeping... They are in a state of utter disbelief and utter shock that so many people have
died," said Yoon.　 Meanwhile, at least 200 rescue workers have been buried by mud
slides during the past three days, a transport ministry official told the official Xinhua
state news agency.
　　Two construction machines and six vehicles were also buried in the mud flows during
efforts to repair quake-shattered roads in the region, Dai Dongchang told Xinhua.
　　Earlier, Xinhua reported that two women had been pulled alive from the rubble of a
collapsed residential building in the Sichuan county of Beichuan.
　　Wang Fazhen, 50, was rescued at about 10:30 a.m. local time Monday. The other woman,
who was not identified, was pulled from the same area about 40 minutes later, the agency
reported.
　　On Sunday a 53-year-old man, was pulled out of the rubble in Yingxiu town in Sichuan's
Wenchuan county -- near the epicenter -- 148 hours after the quake, Xinhua said. The
effort took eight hours, the news agency said.
　　In Beijing's Tiananmen Square around 2,600 people watched as the national flag was
ceremonially lowered to half-mast. Flags throughout the country were also lowered and
condolences books were opened in China's Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies and
consulates around the world, Xinhua reported.
　　CNN's Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz said it was the first time China had
formally commemorated the victims of a natural disaster with a period of national
mourning. iReport.com: Beijing residents pause to mourn
　　The Olympic torch relay was suspended during the mourning period,
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the eastern cities of Ningbo and Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province on Monday, then in Shanghai
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
　　Resources continue to be pour into the nation's massive relief operations even as
hopes faded for those still missing more than seven days since the quake struck. Watch how
the rescue effort has softened the image of China's army ?
　　So far, almost 60 aid organizations from 13 countries have provided assistance to
China in the aftermath of the quake. Among the countries are India, France, Singapore, the
Philippines and the United States.
　　Chinese officials said Monday they had made major progress towards restoring power
supplies throughout the quake-damaged region.
　　Electricity production and distribution has been returned to a level about 80 percent
of what it was before the quake, although the four hardest hit counties closest to the
epicenter are still without power, an official said. Telecommunication services have been
restored to 76 of the 109 townships in the province, another official said.
　　The government said Monday that companies affected by the quake had sufffered $9.5
billion in damage, The Associated Press reported. Independent estimates suggest the final
cost to the economy could reach $20 billion.
　　The quake was the worst tremor to strike China in three decades; a 1976 earthquake
killed more than 250,000 people.