{"id":49751,"date":"2022-10-30T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/itaewon-crowd-crush-felt-like-an-accident-was-bound-to-happen"},"modified":"2022-10-30T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T22:58:16","slug":"itaewon-crowd-crush-felt-like-an-accident-was-bound-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49751","title":{"rendered":"Itaewon crowd crush: \u2018Felt like an accident was bound to happen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses and bystanders in South Korean Halloween disaster tell how thick post-Covid crowds overwhelmed Seoul party district with deadly results<\/p>\n<p>Partygoers in costumes fleeing in panic, desperate attempts at first aid on the sidewalks, scores of bodies lined up under makeshift shrouds: in Seoul\u2019s lively Itaewon district, a Halloween festival turned to tragedy on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150 people were killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/29\/dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea\">crowd surge and stampede<\/a>, the cause of which remained unclear on Sunday. The popular, cosmopolitan district of the South Korean capital, located close to a former US military basem is renowned for its bars and clubs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/itaewon-crowd-crush-felt-like-an-accident-was-bound-to-happen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses and bystanders in South Korean Halloween disaster tell how thick post-Covid crowds overwhelmed Seoul party district with deadly resultsPartygoers in costumes fleeing in panic, desperate attempts at first aid on the sidewalks, scores of bodies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49751\/revisions\/49767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}