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Xinhua: Death toll over 2000, 195 missing. Day of mourning on Wednesday.

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Report from Xinhua on the latest death toll, and a national day of mourning for the Yushu earthquake victims.

BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) — To mourn the victims of a strong earthquake in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, national flags will fly at half-mast in the country and its embassies and consulates overseas on Wednesday, according to the State Council Tuesday.

To express the deep condolences for the quake victims, public entertainment will also be suspended on Wednesday, the State Council, China’s cabinet, said in an announcement.

As of 8 p.m. Monday, the 7.1-magnitude quake, which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu last Wednesday, had killed more than 2,000 while 195 people were still missing, the rescue headquarters said.

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Update: progress of SQR aid delivery

Monday, April 19th, 2010

UPDATE at 3:10pm local time, Tues 20th April:
SQR team should be back in Chengdu by Wednesday lunchtime.

UPDATE at 9am local time, Tues 20th April:
Aid delivered, SQR truck and team now heading back to Xining. They hope to be there by tonight.

UPDATE at 11pm local time, Mon 19th April:
The truck loaded with supplies arrived in Jiegu town about 6pm on Monday April 19th, and is now moving on to Longbao.

The SQR team described the Jiegu town as ‘eerily calm’ and saw the huge amount of destruction caused by the earthquake.

Longbao has suffered terribly; one sign of this is that SQR received verbal permisson from the Longbao authorities to visit, deliver aid and conduct further needs assessments.  Written permission was not possible, as all chops/stamps, fax machines etc. were (and possibly still are) buried under rubble.  Note that SQR has been given official permission from the Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau to deliver this aid.

As with its post-quake efforts in Sichuan, SQR will focus on more remote areas that may not have received the attention they need, such is the scale of the disaster.  There are several villages on the mountain road to Longbao; SQR hopes to be able to survey the situations there on this trip.

Donations can be made via our donations page marked “Yushu”.

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