Seoul crowd crush
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Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster
South Korean court hands out three jail terms, one of them suspended, to officers for professional negligence …
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Seoul police officers sentenced for deleting Halloween crush evidence
Pair are first police officials to be sentenced over 2022 disaster in which nearly 160 people diedA South Kore…
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South Korea crowd crush: Seoul police chief charged over Halloween disaster in which 158 died
Kim Kwang-ho accused of negligence in failing to ‘take necessary measures’ to prevent 2022 disaster in capital…
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‘Our children were treated like criminals’: Parents seek justice a year after deadly Seoul crowd crush
A police inquiry called the Seoul crush that killed 159 a ‘man-made disaster’, yet one year on, victims’ famil…
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Tokyo district mayor urges Halloween revellers to stay away amid crush fears
Ken Hasebe issues warning after 2022 Itaewon tragedy in Seoul, in which more than 150 people diedAuthorities i…
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Itaewon crowd crush: thousands join vigil as anger grows in South Korea
Law enforcement concedes insufficient planning as president belatedly expresses regret for disasterThousands o…
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‘I can’t be protected’: South Korea’s youth tested again by Itaewon tragedy
Crisis of trust is brewing as young people traumatised by 2014 Sewol ferry disaster grapple with another preve…
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Seoul crowd crush: local police offices raided in investigation
Eleven emergency callers used Korean word for ‘crushed to death’ 13 times hours before incidentSouth Korea’s n…
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Seoul mayor makes tearful apology over Halloween crush – video
Seoul's mayor, Oh Se-hoon, apologised during a media briefing and said the city government would deploy all av…
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Seoul crowd crush: PM and police admit failures as anger grows
Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate before Halloween disaster…
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Crowd crushes: how disasters like Itaewon happen, how can they be prevented, and the ‘stampede’ myth
Crowd crushes are wholly preventable, predictable and avoidable, experts say. Here is what we can learn from t…
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South Korea opens investigation into deadly Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul
Shops closed and concerts cancelled after Halloween party surge kills more than 150 people, as questions raise…
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A visual guide to how the Seoul Halloween crowd crush unfolded
More than 150 people were killed as mostly young people flooded the narrow, sloping streets of Itaewon to cele…