Air-raid Siren Sounded to Commemorate Victims of Japanese BombingAn air-raid siren was sounded at 10:00 Tuesday to commemorate the victims of the Japanese bombing 60 years ago of Chongqing municipality in southwest China.On June 5, 1941, Japanese air force flew more than 20 sorties, bombing the city for three hours. About 2,500 residents, who hid in a tunnel in downtown Chongqing, were suffocated to death in the bombing. "Sixty years have passed, but I can never forgot the painful moans of those victims," said Xiang Zhixian, now 76, an eyewitness to the tragedy. With flowers and elegiac couplets, Xiang and thousands of local people went to the site of the tunnel early Tuesday morning to mourn for the victims. Chongqing made the decision to sound an air-raid siren every June 5 since 1999. A museum has been set up near the tunnel in commemoration of the victims. |
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