‘How could this happen?’: Seoul in disbelief after fatal Halloween crush
Residents gathered in Itaewon try to make sense of Saturday evening’s disaster, in which at least 153 people died
There was deep silence in the air around the site where, the night before, 153 people had died in a crowd crush in one of Seoul’s most popular nightlife districts. It was a warm Sunday afternoon filled with shock and disbelief.
Locals and foreign residents gathered behind police ribbons in the vicinity of Itaewon station to pay their respects to the deceased and attempt to make sense of what had occurred hours earlier. The crowd crush was one of the worst disasters the country has seen in years.
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