SHANGHAI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-two out of 49 injured people in the New Year's Eve stampede in east China's Shanghai have been discharged from the hospital, local authorities said.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, 17 injured people are still under medical treatment as of 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
Among them, four are seriously injured and one is still in a critical condition, the commission said.
To mark the seventh-day commemoration of the tragedy, citizens and victims' families visited the site of the stampede on Tuesday.
The deadly stampede, which killed 36 and injured 49, happened when people assembled in Shanghai's historic riverfront walk in the Bund to see in the New Year last Wednesday night.
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