It is the worst-ever stampede in South Korea’s history and President Yoon Suk-yeol has ordered a full investigation and vowed such a tragedy will never be allowed to happen again.
Halloween event without COVID-19 restrictions in three years.
“People couldn’t move forward and were pushing and pushing, and it was a steep hill so people were falling on top of each other, collapsing on top of each other,” eyewitness Jarmil Taylor, 40, told AFP. A delay in emergency first aid could also have led to more deaths, critics said, pointing to a lack of police at the scene which meant first responders initially struggled to reach victims through overcrowded alleyways.
“Itaewon vendors and government officials should have had more preparations about a massive crowd gathering,” he told YTN news.As a short-handed relief team struggled to assist scores of victims in cardiac arrest, passers-by jumped into help with first aid efforts and to perform CPR. Another woman who had gone to Itaewon with her child to enjoy the festivities said she was asked to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation on a handful of victims.“I couldn’t hold back my tears as no one offered to help but continued to film,” as she performed CPR, one woman who identified herself as a nurse wrote on Twitter.
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