I’m usually not a fan of the 骇人听闻 type of news but this just caught my attention: the title of the article claims that Shenzhen nightclub fire that killed 43 people might have claimed this many people b/c some people thought it was a performance and thus did not evacuate the building while they still had the chance. The other horrible thing pointed out by one eye-witness account is the number of people that died after being stampeded in the narrow tunnel leading out of the club: people were trampled and one guy said that one of his friends who made it out hit his head on the ceiling while fleeing, meaning that he was pretty high up — because he was stepping on many people … I’m a bit skeptical about that, but without a doubt what happened there must have been gruesome, no two ways about that.
Fuck.
