Thirty-five people have been killed in a stampede at a New Year’s event in Shanghai, city officials have said.
A statement from the Shanghai government confirmed another 43 people were injured in the chaos.
The stampede happened at the city’s riverfront Bund area, which is usually jammed with spectators for major events, at 11.35pm (local time), according to the Xinhua news agency.
Photographs on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, show one person doing chest compressions on a shirtless individual, while other people lay on the ground nearby.
Another image shows the area ringed by police.
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… see more
source: skynews
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