When 66 died in stampede for ferry
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ON December 1987, in heavy fog, 66 people were killed and more than 20 were injured in Shanghai’s worst stampede disaster.
Most of the victims were waiting for a ferry in the Lujiazui area to take them to work.
With heavy fog reducing visibility to 30 meters and ferry services suspended around 9am, it is estimated that 40,000 people, a quarter of them with bicycles, had accumulated at the ferry terminal on the former Lujiazui Road.
When the fog began to lift and services resumed, passengers rushed to get on the ferry.
A middle-aged man with a bicycle was the first to fall, causing all those behind him to fall to the ground in turn, a survivors later recalled.
In those days, most companies and factories stipulated that anyone late for work would be fined no matter the excuse.
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