Itaewon stampede

In Seoul's lively Itaewon district, a Halloween festival turned to tragedy on Saturday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There were no bodyguards or owners trying to stop the situation.” I used to hang out with them every weekend in Itaewon and now they’re dead. Dazed passers-by sat on the sidewalk, checking their phones. “I said: what are you talking about? Faced with a huge number of victims, the first emergency responders were asking passers-by to administer first aid and perform CPR on victims in the streets, just next to the chaos. And then I went outside to see and there were people doing CPR in the street.”

South Korean officials say at least 26 foreign nationals were among the more than 150 people killed in the incident in Seoul's Itaewon district.

"Jill and I are devastated to learn that at least two Americans are among so many who lost their lives in Seoul. "We will be there for those in our community who knew and loved Anne. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Philip Goldberg said in a statement. Embassy in Seoul is working with local authorities and providing consular assistance to any U.S. And people started screaming, and the crowd poured in toward our club," he said. Gieske was a junior nursing student from Northern Kentucky who was studying in South Korea as part of an education abroad program. The outlet quotes Lee saying that the crush did not seem to be "an incident that could have been prevented by deploying more police or fire officers." There was nobody to help me," he said. "But even after we did that, there were people collapsed at the entrance, and some passed out," he added. Park Kang-hyun, 26, traveled to Seoul from Gwangju city, in the country's southeast, in search of two missing friends. The friend who survived said "there were just too many people. Many were attempting to gather in a narrow alley filled with bars and restaurants, according to local media.

A man climbs up a building in Itaewon to escape the stampede below him on 29 Oct, where over 153 people were confirmed dead.

It is unclear if he managed to reach an upper-floor window or any other location that allowed him to escape the crowd. Viewer discretion is advised when clicking the link. I felt my vision fading.” “Honestly, I was being shoved around against my will. During the chaotic scenes that unfolded at around 10.30pm in a narrow alleyway, a man was seen climbing up a building in a desperate attempt to escape the crush. Pushing and stressing hysterically, a man tries to escape..during the celebrations at the Halloween party..in South Korea..

Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the capital's leisure district of Itaewon.

In 1992, a teenage girl died and dozens of others were injured during a stampede at a Seoul concert by the U.S. In 2005, 11 people were killed and around 60 others were injured in a pop concert stampede in the southern city of Sangju. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a statement calling for officials to ensure swift treatment for those injured and review the safety of the festivity sites. In one section, paramedics were seen checking the status of a dozen or more people who lied motionless under blue blankets. The National Fire Agency separately said in a statement that officials were still trying to determine the exact number of emergency patients. In an interview with news channel YTN, Hwang Min-hyeok, one of the visitors to Itaewon, said it was shocking to see rows of bodies laid down in the alley near Hamilton Hotel. Another survivor in his 20s said he avoided being trampled as he luckily got into a bar whose door was open at the alley, Yonhap news agency reported. TV footage and photos showed ambulance vehicles lined up in streets amid a heavy police presence and emergency workers moving the injured in stretchers. Friday's stampede will likely cause public criticism of government officials over what they've done to improve public safety standards since the ferry disaster. Those killed or hurt were mostly teens and people in their 20s, according to Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department. An estimated 100,000 people had gathered in Itaewon for the country's biggest outdoor Halloween festivities since the pandemic began. It was also possible that some of those who were lightly injured had returned home overnight and were no longer counted.

SEOUL -- At least 154 people were killed in Seoul on Saturday night as Halloween revelers crushed their way into a small alley in the city's Itae.

More than 150 people were killed during a stampede in a party district in South Korea's capital, where young people had gathered for Halloween celebrations.

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