Suddenly stampede occurred at Bund tourist strip which
caused to kill as a minimum 35 people and injured more than 43 during the celebrations
of New Year's Eve in Shanghai, authorities said.
The government of Shanghai said that huge crowds
started to hurry in Chen Yi Square on the Bund very soon before midnight. It
was not instantly clear what triggered the stampede. The authorized Xinhua news
agency said several of the injured were students. The government officials said
on its administrator microblog that an inquiry had begun, with city leaders hurrying
to the sight and to hospitals to visit the injured. An emergency assembly on
this disaster would be held to make sure stepped up safety actions were taken all
over the city.
Pictures showed heavily jam-packed crowds of
revelers beside the Bund, in some Stills, rescue personnel were seen trying to
resuscitate victims while some ambulances waited nearby.
Administration had shown some concern to control huge
crowd in the days leading up to New Year's Eve. Management has canceled,
recently, a yearly 3D laser demonstrate on the Bund that previous year
attracted as many as 300,000 people.
There was
little signal of the mayhem that had broken out just hours earlier.
The City government of Shanghai spoke; the condition
began badly at 11:35pm local time and the reason of the stampede was presently
under investigation
Still Showed people are receiving first aid on the
road and large numbers of police covering the entire area.The picture suggested that huge public had gathered close
to the waterfront area that known as The Bund.
Shanghai City government said that those injured had
been shifted to hospitals all over the city while the party secretary of “Shanghai”
had visited hospital.
Before, Shanghai's police wrote on its confirmed
social media that some "visitors" had fallen over at The Bund, and
urged the public to clear the locale in an orderly fashion.