China declares three days of mourning after quake
China today declared three days of national mourning for its earthquake victims and ordered a suspension of the Olympic torch relay.
The state council, China’s cabinet, said the mourning period would start tomorrow and include three minutes of silence observed nationwide at 2.28pm (7.28am BST) — exactly one week after the 7.9-magnitude quake struck in Sichuan province.
source: Guardian
That would be followed by horns of vehicles, trains, ships and air raid sirens wailing in grief, it was announced. All national flags will fly at half-mast at home and at Chinese diplomatic missions abroad, and public recreational activities will be halted.
Organisers of the Beijing Olympics said the torch relay would be suspended “to express our deep mourning to the victims of the earthquake.”
The relay sombrely resumed last week, with runners starting with a minute of silence and asking for donations along the route. Organisers said the relay would go on as planned in Sichuan next month.
In the disaster zone, efforts appeared to shift from searching for buried survivors to clearing corpses from shattered buildings as the government confirmed the death toll had risen to 32,476.
Another 220,109 people suffered injuries, according to a statement from the state council. The government has said it expects the final death toll to surpass 50,000.
In Beichuan, near the quake’s epicentre, few hopeful relatives could be seen. Several dozen corpses in blue body bags lay in a street. Soldiers continued to pull more dead from the wreckage.
“It will soon be too late” to find trapped survivors, said Fuji Yakoji, the deputy leader of a Japanese rescue team that pulled 10 bodies from a flattened school. “We hope with our hard work we will find more people alive.”
Wu Hai, a Chinese rescue team leader who came from the neighbouring Yunnan province, said bodies in the town were in the middle stages of decomposition and “many of the limbs are broken off”.
“There are definitely many more (bodies) here. Locals here said several thousands have been buried here.”
A “slightly bruised” man was today pulled out alive from a collapsed hospital after being trapped for 139 hours, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Experts say buried earthquake survivors could live for a week or more, depending on the temperature and whether they had access to water.
A Malaysian rescue team in the town of Muyu, further north, sifted slowly and methodically through the wreckage. However, they were not tapping on the debris in the hope survivors would hear and respond as other crews had done earlier. They instead used giant cutters to split steel girders.
Dozens of students were buried in new graves dotting a green hillside overlooking the rubble, the small mounds of dirt failing to block the pungent smell of decay wafting from the ground. Most graves were unmarked, though several had wooden markers with names scribbled on them.
Zhou Bencen, 36, said he raced to the town’s middle school after the earthquake, where relatives who arrived earlier had dug out the body of his 13-year-old daughter, Zhou Xiao, crushed on the first floor.
Zhou cradled his wife in his arms, holding her hand and stroking her back while she sobbed hysterically. “Oh God, oh God, why is life so bitter?” Liao Jinju wailed. The couple’s 9-year-old son survived.
The World Health Organisation said conditions for homeless survivors were ripe for outbreaks of disease and called for quick action to supply clean water and proper hygiene facilities.
“Ensuring supply of food and safe drinking water and trying to restore good sanitation are critical because these are basic transmission routes for communicable diseases,” said Hans Troedsson, WHO’s representative to China.
Chinese health officials have not reported any disaster-related outbreaks so far.
Nuclear facilities jolted by the quake were confirmed to be safe and troops were sent to reinforce security, Major General Ma Jian, the military’s deputy chief of operations, told reporters in Beijing.
China has a research reactor, two nuclear fuel production sites and two atomic weapons sites in Sichuan province, the French nuclear watchdog has said. All are located within 90 miles of the earthquake’s epicentre.
Also in the quake area, three giant pandas were reported missing from the Wolong nature reserve, the world’s most famous reserve for the endangered animals. Panda houses were severely damaged and five staff members were killed, the forestry spokesman Cao Qingyao told Xinhua. The 60 other giant pandas at the reserve were safe.
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