A stampede has killed at least 35 people and injured 43 during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, on the city's famed waterfront tourist strip known as the Bund, authorities said.
The Shanghai government said that large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before midnight, with authorities working to rescue and aid the wounded.
The official Xinhua news agency said many of the injured were students.
The trigger for the stampede hasn't been confirmed, but state media and witnesses said the incident was at least partly caused when people tried picking up fake money.
A man who brought one of the 47 injured to a local hospital for treatment said fake money had been thrown down from a bar above the street as part of the New Year's Eve celebrations. People rushed to pick up the money, triggering the stampede.
Another witness said she had picked up some of the bank notes but had thrown them away when she realized they were fake.
"It's too cruel. People in front of us had already fallen to the floor, and others were stepping all over them," she said.
State television cited others as saying the fake bills came fluttering down "like snow", but that it was too early to blame the stampede on that.
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