New Year's Stampede Leaves 35 Dead in Shanghai

A stampede killed at least 35 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money tossed into their midst. The Shanghai government said large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square, on the city's famed waterfront tourist strip known as the Bund, just before midnight. A man who took one of the 43 injured revelers to a hospital for treatment said fake money had been thrown down from a bar above the...

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