PEOPLE unable to contact friends and relatives streamed into Shanghai hospitals today, anxious for information after a stampede during new year celebrations in the historic waterfront area killed 36 people.

City officials said that 47 others had received hospital treatment, including 13 who were seriously injured, after the chaos about half an hour before midnight.

One Taiwanese was among the dead and two Taiwanese and one Malaysian among the injured in the worst disaster to hit one of China’s major cities in recent years.

The deaths and injuries occurred at Chen Yi Square in the riverfront Bund area, an avenue lined with art deco buildings from the 1920s and ’30s when Shanghai was home to international banks and trading houses.

At one of the hospitals where the injured were being treated, police brought out photos of unidentified dead victims, causing dozens of waiting relatives to crowd around.