People had gathered in Seoul's Itaewon district on 29 October for the first Halloween parade since COVID-19. But celebrations turned disastrous after a stampede killed over 150 people. How did one of South Korea's worst accidents in history unfold?
Seoul: How did Halloween turn deadly?Saturday's crush killed 156 people, many in their teens and 20s, and injured another 157 as partygoers flooded the narrow alleyways of Itaewon to celebrate the first mostly unrestricted Halloween in three years.Police received 10 further calls, all reporting that there were too many people, before things were known to have turned fatal.
Another transcript from a call made at 8:33pm read:"People are falling down on the streets, looks like there could be an accident, it looks very dangerous." " will get crushed to death here. It's chaotic," the transcript of that call says, noting that screams were heard over the phone.Police went to the scene for four out of the 11 calls, an official told reporters.
"Those things are all under inspection now, so it's difficult for me to answer at this point," a National Police Agency official said."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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