Week 3-36 Killed In New Year's Stampede In China
State media and a witness claim the tragedy happened after "fake money" was thrown from a bar overlooking New Year celebrations.
(18:16, UK,Thursday 01 January 2015)
Thirty-six people have been killed in a stampede at a New Year's event on Shanghai's historic waterfront.
Forty-seven more people were injured, 13 of them seriously, in the chaos, city officials said.
The disaster happened shortly before midnight on Wednesday as people packed the Bund area to usher in 2015.
Angry family members clash with security personnel in a hospital where some of the victims of a stampede by new year's revellers were sent in Shanghai
The official news agency Xinhua said a Taiwanese person was among the dead, and that 25 of those killed were women.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded an immediate investigation.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the stampede, but state media and a witness said the incident was caused when people tried picking up fake money thrown from a building.
A man who brought one of the injured to a local hospital for treatment said fake money had been thrown down from a bar above the street as part of a New Year's celebration.
People rushed to pick up the money, triggering the stampede, said the man, who declined to be identified.
Relatives of a victim hug as they wait at a hospital where injured people of a stampede incident are treated in Shanghai
But Xinhua reported that surveillance footage showed the notes had been thrown after the stampede, at 11.47 pm, citing the Shanghai police official microblog.
Local TV reported authorities were investigating the money-throwing incident, but attributed the cause of the stampede to people slipping and falling in crowded conditions.
In an unusually critical commentary, Xinhua said the tragedy was a "wake-up call that the world's second-largest economy is still a developing country which has fragile social management."
Authorities had shown some concern about crowd control in the days leading up to New Year's Eve.
They had cancelled an annual 3D laser show on the Bund that last year attracted around 300,000 people.
The historic riverfront strip runs along an area of narrow streets surrounded by restored old buildings, shops and tourist attractions.
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2.massacre大屠殺
3. disguise 偽裝
4.terrorist activities 恐怖活動
It is surprisin to hear that people were stamped to death. I think that the people were so greedy that they flocked to get the money. If the person who threw the money didn't do so the tragedy wouldn't have happened
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回覆刪除I think it is really an exaggeration to see people trampled to death. But I think the main reason is that people are too greedy. It's time that we should change our system of values.
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回覆刪除I think people have to change the habits that Picking up the money not them from floor. The greedy make many people dead it is really a terrible news.
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