China’s government set Wednesday as a national day of mourning over last week's 6.9-magnitude earthquake, as it continued its proactive response to the disaster whose death toll has topped 2,000.

Six days since the quake struck remote Yushu county in western Qinghai Province, 17,000 people have been rescued, the Telegraph reported, citing government officials. On Monday, three more people were pulled from the rubble: a girl and her grandmother and a young woman. But the prospects of finding 195 people still missing have dimmed.

The government has responded energetically to the crisis, deploying some 15,000 rescuers to the quake zone, including 11,000 police officers and soldiers. So many military supply trucks are heading to the hard-hit town of Jiegu that the main road has backed up for miles, reported the Associated Press.