China Earth Quake-Full Coverage

• More than 200 relief workers in quake-hit southwestern China have been
  buried by mudflows over the past two days.


• Details of the accidents were not immediately available.


• It was unclear whether any of those buried had been pulled out alive.


• News of the mudflows came seven days after a 7.9 magnitude quake hit
  Sichuan province.


• There have been numerous rockslides from unstable mountain slopes and
  blocked rivers swollen by heavy rain have threatened to burst their
  banks.
  Meanwhile, China has started three days of national mourning for more
  than 30,000 victims of the earthquake.


• Public entertainment was suspended, flags were put at half-mast and a
  three-minute silence will be observed to mark exactly a week since the
  quake.


• The national flag in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing flew at half
  mast after a ceremony at dawn.


• The Olympic torch relay, currently on its domestic leg ahead of the 8
  August opening in Beijing, was also suspended for three days.
  Around the country air raid sirens and car, train and ship horns
  sounded to 'wail in grief' at 7.28am, the time the quake hit a week
  ago, the official Xinhua news agency said.


• The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges and the futures exchanges in
  Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Dalian also halted trading for three minutes.
  In southwestern Sichuan province's Beichuan, hard hit by the
  earthquake, relatives continued to travel back into the disaster zone
  to look for family members and see the damage for themselves.
  The official death toll stands at nearly 32,500 from the original quake
  of 7.9 magnitude that rattled Sichuan province.


• Some 220,000 people are reported injured and a further 9,500 are
  thought to be still buried under the rubble in Sichuan.
  Most are feared dead, but some are still being pulled out alive.
  Rescuers saved at least two women this morning in a house near a coal
  mine, Xinhua said.


• Officials have tried to keep people from the area because of
  aftershocks and a build-up of water in blocked rivers.
  Xinhua said the most dangerous mass of water was only about 3 km
  upstream from Beichuan town where rescue workers saved a man yesterday
  from under the remains of a hospital.


• China says it expects the final death toll to exceed 50,000.
  About 4.8m people have lost their homes.