Shanghai: At least 35 people had been killed and more than 43 had been injured in a stampede of celebration of New Year Eve in China’s Shanghai.
Authorities said that accident had been occurred on the city’s famed waterfront tourist strip known as Bund.
The Shanghai government said that large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before midnight, with authorities working to rescue and aid the wounded.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the stampede. The official Xinhua news agency said many of the injured were students.
On official microblogging site, government that an inquiry had begun, with city leaders rushing to the scene and to hospitals to visit the injured. An emergency meeting would be held to ensure stepped-up safety measures were taken throughout the city.
Photographs on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, showed densely packed crowds of revelers along the Bund, which is lined with buildings from Shanghai’s pre-communist heyday on the bank of the Huangpu River.
Photographs also show that rescue workers were seen trying to resuscitate victims lying on the pavement while ambulances waited nearby.
Bureau Report
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