19 मई, 2008 - Published 11:35 GMT

चीन में मृतकों के लिए शोक

For three minutes a collective wail was heard across the town of Beichuan as air raid sirens and car horns sounded the exact time when the earthquake hit China one week ago. Workers here laid wreathes outside the town's school. At 2.28 in the afternoon, last Monday, it was engulfed in a landslide, hundreds of children died.

To the side of the mourners, bodies lay waiting to be buried. Rescue work has now resumed and two women were found alive here this morning, but these glimmers of hope are increasingly rare.

Elsewhere in the province, two hundred rescue workers have been lost in a landslide; the aftershocks continue.

Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Beichuan

a collective wail
एक ही जगह जमा लोगों का एक साथ चीत्कार करके रोना

air raid sirens
हवाई हमले की चेतावनी देने वाले साइरन

wreathes
मरने वालों की याद में पुष्पांजलि, फूल रख कर श्रद्धांजलि देना

engulfed
पूरी तरह प्रभावित

a landslide
भूस्खलन

resumed
दोबारा शुरू हुआ

glimmers of hope
आशा की धुँधली सी किरण

are increasingly rare
कभी-कभी होता है

Elsewhere in
कहीं और भी, किसी अन्य स्थल पर

aftershocks
भूकंप के बाद के हलके झटके