30/10/2022
Pray for South Korea 🇰🇷
ITAEWON SEOUL KOREA: HALLOWEEN STAMPEDE
The death toll continues to rise as 120 people have been killed and hundreds were found injured On the night of October 29 in Seoul Korea.
More than 100,000 people gathered in the neighborhood of Itaewon to celebrate the Halloween weekend. This was the first big Halloween event since 2019.
According to the emergency fire officials, the accident occurred around 10:15 PM KST, just before the police received reports that about 20 people have fainted due to a crowd surge.
People kept pushing down and more people were crushed down,” the witness wrote on Twitter. “People crushed under the crowd were crying and I thought I would be crushed to death too, breathing through a hole and crying for help.”
Emergency broadcast had been sent to every mobile phone in the Yongsan District urging citizens to return home as soon as possible due to "an emergency accident near Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon".
Videos from Seoul's Itaewon district show body bags on the streets, emergency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying to pull people trapped beneath others.
Pray for South Korea 🇰🇷
ITAEWON SEOUL KOREA: HALLOWEEN STAMPEDE
The death toll continues to rise as 120 people have been killed and hundreds were found injured On the night of October 29 in Seoul Korea.
More than 100,000 people gathered in the neighborhood of Itaewon to celebrate the Halloween weekend. This was the first big Halloween event since 2019.
According to the emergency fire officials, the accident occurred around 10:15 PM KST, just before the police received reports that about 20 people have fainted due to a crowd surge.
People kept pushing down and more people were crushed down,” the witness wrote on Twitter. “People crushed under the crowd were crying and I thought I would be crushed to death too, breathing through a hole and crying for help.”
Emergency broadcast had been sent to every mobile phone in the Yongsan District urging citizens to return home as soon as possible due to "an emergency accident near Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon".
Videos from Seoul's Itaewon district show body bags on the streets, emergency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying to pull people trapped beneath others.
