March 2, 1988 (, Boshin In fifteenth day), China's Qinghai Province, Xining Lantern lanterns tragedy. the evening March

1988 Lantern Festival, Xining City Guandeng the endless streams. 20:30 to 9 and a half, more than the crowd owner to the Weblog downtown to watch 76 floats lanterns arranged in a north-south street. Quartet crowd at a crossroads, a "vortex" of a Unit intractable, the police lost the ability to control the situation. At about 9:30, the "vortex" center squeeze down an audience, behind the crowd sped on, squeeze down step in a single step. Lanterns turned into disaster relief, rescue a wounded admitted to the hospital.
to the next morning to statistics, a total of 18 deaths and injured 119 people. The direct economic loss of 99,000 yuan. Afterwards, the mayor of the resignation of the vice mayor and public security bureau, to be removed from office.
same evening Lankao County, Henan Zhongyuan Oilfield Exploration Company held in the hospitals stadium lights light show and cast fireworks resident near the crowd of more than 20,000 people to watch. The masses swarming crowds 9:30 discharged squeeze shoving stampede resulting in 7 people were killed and seven injured, (Today in History. Cn) happy event into a tragedy