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The death toll is still climbing, Chinese government officials said on May 19th, as the country began three days of national mourning to honor the dead.

God bless the quake victims! May all the dead rest in peace.

This video was recorded by Aw Guo from ifgogo.com in Tian'anmen Square at May 19th, 14:28. More posts about the earthquake can be found at this url. When the mourning started, it was really so silent. I could only hear the whistles.

I will upload another video later here about the event today in Tian'anmen Square by me (What a pity that Youtube refuses to host a video longer than 10 minutes.)

Here is the report from Xinhua English:

BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- 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 southwest a week ago.

Across the country, air raid sirens, cars, trains and ship horns wailed in grief as the people fell silent.

Chinese bourses and commodities exchanges also suspended trading for three minutes in remembrance of the earthquake dead.

The three-minute remembrance is part of three-day national mourning for those who died in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake. More than 32,000 people have been confirmed dead and the estimated death toll could top 50,000.

National flags flew at half mast, public entertainments were cancelled and the Olympic torch relay was suspended during the three-day mourning period.

Another video from CCTV (host on Youku)