Wed, April 21, 2010
At least 1,000 people gathered in front of the town hall in Gyegu Wednesday morning to mourn those who were killed in last week's devastating earthquake.
The mourners, representing all the different ethnic groups in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, wore white paper flowers, a traditional symbol of mourning in China, and stood in silent tribute at 10 a.m..
The national flag in the square was lowered to half-mast and the national anthem played.
Even the rescuers, still working all-out to search for 175 people still missing, stopped for three minutes to mourn.
