week3-36 dead, 47 injured in New Year’s stampede in Shanhai

December 31, 2014

At least 36 people are dead, and 47 injured during a New Year’s celebration on the Bund, a waterfront area in central Shanghai.

Emergency teams and police tried to save as many people as they could during a deadly stampede that begat at 11:35 p.m. local time. Police rushed to the scene and began to take the injured to nearby hospitals and formed a human chain to create a room for the injured to receive treatment.

According to Shanghai Rescue authorities, many of those at the Bund were young students, as were many of the dead.

Distraught relatives waited in the hospital lobbies for news of their loved ones.

Sina News reported that masses of crowds in Chen Yi Square on the Bund led to the stampede. The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but the Eastday news portal in Shanghai interviewed an eyewitness to the stampede named Wu Tao, from neighboring Anhui province, who said that the stampede began when some people threw fake promotional money from the windows of luxury club called Bund No. 18 in Shanghai.

However after watching videos, Shanghai Police deny that the stampede was caused by “coupon-throwing.”

After the accident, local hospitals sent ambulances to the scene and transported the injured people to emergency rooms.

Officials of the Shanghai Municipal Commission held their first press conference at the Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, reporting the latest development of the medical treatment given to patients injured during the stampede.

“By 11:00 Thursday, 36 people were reported to have died and 47 other people were injured. Seven people who were slightly injured have already left the hospital. The remaining 40 people are accepting medical treatment in hospital. Of the injured, 33 people have been identified. The patients are mainly young people, with 12 males and 28 females. Of the 40 injured, 27 have minor injuries and the 13 others were severely injured and are in critical condition,” said Wu.

CCTV News reporter Xu Zhaoqun reported this story from Shanghai.

http://www.cctv-america.com/2014/12/31/stampede-in-shanghai-during-new-years-celebration

Structure of the Lead:
Who:36 people are dead, and 47 injured 
When:A New Year’s celebration on the Bund
What: A deadly stampede
Why:Too many people
Where:In Chen Yi Square on the Bund 
How:Not given 

Keywords:
1.stampede:蜂擁
2.distraught :心痛的

Week2-Pakistan massacre: Student played dead to Taliban militant attack on Peshawar school

Updated 17 Dec 2014, 11:51 am

A teenage survivor of Tuesday's Taliban attack on a Pakistan school has described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents hunting down students to kill.

Taliban militants stormed the army public school on Tuesday night (local time), opening fire and killing 141 people, mostly students.

Speaking from his bed in the trauma ward of the city's Lady Reading Hospital, Shahrukh Khan, 16, said he and his classmates were in a careers guidance session in the school auditorium when four gunmen wearing paramilitary uniforms burst in.

"Someone screamed at us to get down and hide below the desks," he said, adding that the gunmen shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) before opening fire.

"Then one of them shouted 'there are so many children beneath the benches, go and get them'," the student said.

"I saw a pair of big black boots coming towards me, this guy was probably hunting for students hiding beneath the benches."

He said he felt searing pain after being shot in both his legs just below the knee.

He decided to play dead, adding: "I folded my tie and pushed it into my mouth so that I wouldn't scream."

"The man with big boots kept on looking for students and pumping bullets into their bodies. I lay as still as I could and closed my eyes, waiting to get shot again.

"My body was shivering. I saw death so close and I will never forget the black boots approaching me - I felt as though it was death that was approaching me."

As his father, a shopkeeper, comforted him in his blood-soaked bed, Shahrukh recalled: "The men left after some time and I stayed there for a few minutes."

"Then I tried to get up but fell to the ground because of my wounds.

"When I crawled to the next room, it was horrible. I saw the dead body of our office assistant on fire.

"She was sitting on the chair with blood dripping from her body as she burned."

It was not immediately clear how the female employee's body caught fire, though her remains were also later seen by an AFP reporter in a hospital mortuary.

The student, who said he also saw the body of a soldier who worked at the school, crawled behind a door to hide and then lost consciousness.

"When I woke up I was lying on the hospital bed," he said.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack as retaliation for a major military offensive in the region, saying its militants had been ordered to shoot older students.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-17/pakistani-student-played-dead-to-survive-taliban-attack/5971910

Structure of the lead:

Who:A teenager survivor of Tuesday's Taliban attack on a Pakistan school.
When:In a careers guidance session.

What:Four gunman burst in.
Why:Not given

Where:
How:In the school auditorium.

Keywords:

1.insurgents :叛亂的

2.paramilitary ;軍事組織成員

3.crawled ;爬行

4.retaliation ;報復