35 Killed in New Year Celebration in Shanghai
Accidents due to overcrowding in the New Year's Eve
celebrations in Shanghai, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more.
Visitors crowded on New Year's Eve celebrations in Cheng
Yi Square, the Bund area, in downtown Shanghai. (31/12).
The witnesses said the tragedy had occurred after a crowd
rushed scramble counterfeit money being thrown someone out of a window on the
third floor of a building.
The incident occurred while before midnight local time in
the Field Cheng Yi in the Bund, in downtown Shanghai. Witness Cui Tingting (27
years) said fast currents arise to take the bills, which later turned out to be
false.
The images contained in social media shows how the
pedestrians trying to wake people injured lying on the ground strewn with
litter. The official Xinhua news agency said many of the dead were students and
children. At least 43 people were injured. (VOA)
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