Advanced stampede at least 36 people during New Year celebrations in Shanghai people are killed counterfeit money thrown from a building overlooking the famous harbor area of the collar of the city, officials may be caused.
The government in China Capital Business shimmer, large crowds said, Chen Yi started up on the Bund in panic worst disaster in the city of the world since 58 died shortly before midnight in an apartment building fire in the year 2010 .
The trigger for the stampede has not yet been confirmed, but the state media and witnesses said he was at least partly caused when people tried to collect coupons that looked like banknotes.
A man who is one of the 47 injured taken to hospital for treatment of counterfeit money had been thrown out of a bar in the street as part of the celebrations of the New Year's Eve. People have rushed to get coupons, triggering the stampede, said the man, who gave his surname as Wu.
Cui Ting Ting, 27, said she had picked up some of the bills, but they had thrown away when they realized they were wrong.
"It's too cruel. People already fallen in front of us on the ground, and others were step on it, "she said.
State television quoted others as saying that counterfeits came floating down "like snow."
Shanghai police said they were not able to confirm whether the counterfeit money was the cause of the stampede, adding that a probe was underway and ask people to be patient, according to state television .
Glass doors in the bar, whose name appears on counterfeits on Thursday blocked if signs of celebration last night could strewn with debris on the ground to see.
People not to open the door into the bar when a Reuters journalist struck.
Another witness, who gave his surname as Wei, said there had been a problem in the area where the counterfeit notes were launched, with people trying on a platform overlooking the river was to obtain.
Xinhua News Agency said that people were after he took the stage on the platform to toe.
"We were caught in the middle and watched some girls down while screaming. Then people who fall out of line down, the series began," witness surnamed Yin told Xinhua.
Some Chinese media criticism made by the authorities to lack of police work and adequate planning.
The policeman Cai Lixin said they did not have a great presence in the federal government, as no formal events scheduled New Year, told Caixin magazine.
Foreign media participation in a police press conference highlighted the sensitivity of the government on all critical report on disasters prohibited.
State media said many dead and injured were students, with 28 dead women.
The authorities had shown some concern about crowd control in the days before New Year's Eve. She recently canceled a year 3D Laser Show on the Bund, which attracted last year no less than 300 000 people.
New Year's Eve, Beijing canceled an event countdown in the central business district, told Chinese media, fear of the police of overpopulation.
President Xi Jinping, the Shanghai government as soon as possible to get to the bottom of the incident, and ordered governments across the country to ensure not pass a similar catastrophe again told state television.
The Shanghai government said on its official microblog that an investigation had begun, and all other events of New Year was canceled.
Photos on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, showed dense crowds of revelers along the Bund in Shanghai building with pre-flowers on a background of the Huangpu River and the upscale home restaurants, bars, shops and hotels.
In 2004, 37 people died in a stampede in north Beijing on a bridge in a scenic location during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Shanghai New Year's Eve stampede kills 36 after fake money thrown from building
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