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(CNN)-- People across China observed three minutes ofsilence on Monday as the country began three days of national mourningto honor the victims of last week's massive earthquake.
Children at a mourning ceremony held Monday in quake-hit Qingchuan county, Sichuan province.
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But underscoring the tragedy of last week's disaster, more grim newswas reported during the observance: A mud flow had buried more than 200relief workers in China, China's state media reported Monday.
Car, truck and train horns blared across China starting at 2:28 p.m.(6:28 a.m. GMT) Monday afternoon, exactly a week after a massiveearthquake. Traffic halted, work stopped and people bowed their headsfor three minutes during the "wail of grief" to observe the moment whentheir country shook.
The observance erupted into a loudoutpouring of emotion among thousands of people in Chengdu, the capitalof China's Sichuan province. They ended their 180 seconds of silentobservance with shouts of support for the recovery effort.
TheOlympic torch relay was suspended during the mourning period, China'sstate-run television announced. The torch was going to be in theeastern cities of Ningbo and Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province on Monday,then in Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday.
By Sunday evening,the official death toll rose to 32,477, according to state-run media.Another 220,109 were wounded in the major quake, Xinhua said.
Amid the bleak toll, survival stories emerged.
Two women were rescued from the rubble of a collapsed residentialbuilding in central China on Monday, almost a week after the powerfulChina earthquake, Xinhua reported.
Wang Fazhen, 50, was rescuedat about 10:30 a.m. local time Monday. The other woman, who was notidentified, was pulled from the same area about 40 minutes later, theagency reported.
The women were rescued at a coal mine in Beichuan, a county in China's Sichuan province.
On Sunday a 53-year-old man, was pulled out of the rubble in Yingxiutown in Sichuan's Wenchuan county -- near the epicenter -- 148 hoursafter the quake, Xinhua said. The effort took eight hours, the newsagency said.
Even as miraculous stories of survival werereported, resources continued to be poured into the nation's massiverelief operations.
So far, almost 60 aid organizations from 13countries were assisting in the aftermath of the quake. Among thecountries are India, France, Singapore, the Philippines and the UnitedStates.
Two U.S. military planes landed in Chengdu Sunday withblankets, water and other relief supplies. The first plane -- a C-17cargo jet -- flew from a U.S. base in Hawaii, while the second flightcame from Alaska, officials said.
Xinhua announced that itincreased the magnitude of the quake from 7.8 to 8.0. The U.S.Geological Survey measured the temblor at 7.9, which CNN has beenreporting. The USGS figure remains unchanged as of Sunday.
Early Sunday, a moderate aftershock rattled areas, while fears of flash flooding and landslides hindered rescue efforts.
Sunday's 5.7-magnitude aftershock shook the region near the border ofSichuan and Gansu provinces just after 1 a.m., the USGS said. Thousandsof aftershocks have plagued the area since the May 12 quake.
Just hours earlier, concerns over a damaged dam and rising water levelsat two lakes triggered the mass evacuation of 30,000 people --including rescuers and journalists -- in at least 10 villages andtownships, Chinese officials said.
People down-river from thequake-damaged Kuzhu dam in Beichuan county were ordered to leave thearea Saturday afternoon over fears it might burst, according to Xinhua.
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