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08-19-2008, 08:21 PM
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Isolated county marks 100th day since devastating quake
Beichuan County, battered in the magnitude 8.0 earthquake on May 12 in Sichuan Province, was opened on Monday for survivors to hold memorial ceremonies for the dead. More than 20,000 people, mostly of the Qiang ethnic group, came back to the county which had been isolated since late May to prevent epidemic "Beichuan is an autonomous county of the Qiang minority group, who observe the custom of holding ceremony for the deceased on the100th day of their departure," said Qu Yong'an, ...
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