South Korean will conduct a thorough investigation into the Halloween crowd crush that killed more than 150 people in the capital over the weekend, officials say.
had gathered on Saturday in Itaewon, a nightlife district of Seoul that is popular with foreigners, when a crowd surge began in a sloped and narrow alleyway, setting off a deadly panic.celebration without Covid restrictions in three years.including two Americans
President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has ordered a weeklong national mourning period, paid his respects to victims on Monday at a memorial near City Hall. A second memorial has been set up at a site in Itaewon.Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images Witnesses suggested there was insufficient police presence to control the crowds, which may have been larger than anticipated.“It was foreseen that a large number of people would gather there. But we didn’t expect that large-scale casualties would occur due to the gathering of many people,” Hong Ki-hyun, chief of the National Police Agency’s Public Order Management Bureau, told reporters.
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