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The Ministry of Public Security's website has been displayed in black to mourn and pay respects.

Wu Heping, spokesman of Ministry of Public Security, said, "A mourning hall has been set up in the Ministry of Public Security, to honor those who perished. We have also set up Internet sites where people can send their condolences. In losing them, we feel aggrieved."

Among the victims were Zhu Xiaoping, the director of the ministry's equipment and finance department.

Guo Baoshan, deputy director of the ministry's international cooperation department.

Wang Shulin and Li Xiaoming, both researchers at the ministry.

The rest of the victims were officers in China's peacekeeping force in Haiti.

They were Zhao Huayu, who worked for the ministry in Beijing and was a volunteer at a Haitian orphanage.

Li Qin, a veteran police officer from southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Zhong Jianqin, a press officer, who never got a chance to see his newly born daughter.

And He Zhihong, the team's translator and mother of a one-year-old.

They were meeting with UN officials in the headquarters of the UN Stabilization Mission in Port-au-Prince when the quake struck.

(CCTV January 18, 2010)

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