35 dead in stampede at the New Year in Shanghai

In China, New Year celebrations have been bereaved by a deadly stampede. At least 35 people were décédées.Le tragedy occurred on the famous Bund Promenade in Shanghai. Each year, the festivities attract thousands of people.

According to several media, the stampede was caused by a throw of counterfeit banknotes from a building above the crowd. People would then rushed to pick them up, causing a tragic movement of the crowd, who also forty wounded.

The government announced the opening of an investigation. One of the injured told how he lived the event.

"People who were above us led us downwards, we could not go back. A line of people who had risen we fell over, so we had crashed, "he says.

In recent days, the authorities were worried about precisely control crowds. They had canceled a 3D laser show on the Bund promenade that attracted 300,000 people last year.