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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, 35 killed and 43 injured in stampede

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.

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