“(People) will get crushed to death here. It’s chaotic,” the transcript of that call says, noting that screams were heard over the phone.
Police say responded to four of the 11 callsTranscripts of the 11 emergency calls made in the hours and minutes before a Halloween party crush killed more than 150 people in Seoul reveal the growing fear of revelers and how they had urged the police to intervene.
The crush on Saturday night killed 156 people, many in their teens and 20s, and injured another 157 as revelers flooded the narrow alleyways of theto mark the first virtually unrestricted Halloween festivities in three years. The latest call released by the police came at 10:11 p.m., minutes before people packed into one particularly narrow and sloping alley began to fall over each other shortly before 10:30 p.m.
“Those things are all under inspection now, so it’s difficult for me to answer at this point,” a National Police Agency official said when asked by Reuters about responding to four calls.“The police will speedily and rigorously conduct intensive inspections and investigation on all aspects without exception to explain the truth of this accident,” police commissioner Yoon told a news conference earlier.
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