SHANGHAI (AP) - People unable to contact friends and relatives have been streaming into hospitals in the Chinese city of Shanghai, following a New Year's Eve stampede at the city's historic waterfront.
At least 36 people were killed and 47 others injured seriously enough to be taken to the hospital.
At one hospital, police brought out photos of the unidentified dead. Some people who looked at the photos broke into tears when they recognized someone.
A hospital official says some of the victims had been suffocated.
Relatives desperately seeking information earlier tried to push past hospital guards, who used a bench to hold them back. Police later allowed family members into the hospital.
One man told China's Xinhua (shihn-wah) News Agency that the stampede began as people scrambled for coupons that looked like dollar bills.
This morning, dozens of police officers were in the area and tourists continued to wander by the square, a small patch of grass dominated by a statue of the city's first Communist mayor.
