Chengguan Primary SchoolShanyang 1987
Children rushing to a school assembly crowded down a dark or unlighted stairwell. Reports describe a locked metal door, pupils forced toward another exit, and children falling at the front of the moving crowd.
Incident Overview
Stairway crush at Chengguan Primary School
Incident name: Chengguan Primary School stampede / Shanyang Chengguan Primary School stairway crush.
Location: Chengguan Primary School / 山阳城关小学, Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, China.
News reporting describes pupils rushing to a school assembly, crowding down a dark stairwell and panicking after children fell at the front.
Working Summary
Locked exit, darkness and movement pressure
The strongest source set supports 28 children killed and 100 injured. Most victims were reported as under 10 years old.
A UPI result says a locked metal door forced children from 18 classes down an unlighted stairwell to the only other exit.
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The available material is consistent on the main casualty figure, but conflicts on date and injury-severity detail.
The user-supplied row and secondary datasets give 26 December 1987, while UPI wording and a Chinese local retrospective point to 28 December 1987.
User-supplied row and secondary datasets.
UPI says early Monday in a 29 December report; Shangluo Daily explicitly gives 1987年12月28日.
Best-supported date in the supplied source set is 28 December 1987. The 26 December date remains unverified except in secondary data.
News reporting supports 100 injured. A secondary dataset adds 60 hospitalised and eight seriously injured, but that added detail was not independently verified from a contemporary full article.
Washington Post / news services and UPI report 100 injured.
Adds 60 hospitalised and eight seriously injured.
Use 100 injured as the safest figure. Treat the severity breakdown as unverified unless a stronger source is found.
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