{"id":49910,"date":"2022-11-03T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/seoul-crowd-crush-local-police-offices-raided-in-investigation"},"modified":"2022-11-03T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:57:44","slug":"seoul-crowd-crush-local-police-offices-raided-in-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49910","title":{"rendered":"Seoul crowd crush: local police offices raided in investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven emergency callers used Korean word for \u2018crushed to death\u2019 13 times hours before incident<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s national police agency on has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city\u2019s Yongsan district office as it investigates whether official ineptitude contributed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/seoul-halloween-crush-itaewon-reaction\">crowd surge that killed 156 people<\/a> in the neighbourhood of Itaewon.<\/p>\n<p>The raids came a day after the agency acknowledged Seoul police failed to act for hours despite receiving at least 11 emergency calls from pedestrians warning about a swelling crowd of Halloween revellers getting out of control ahead of the crush on Saturday in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/seoul-crowd-crush-local-police-offices-raided-in-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven emergency callers used Korean word for \u2018crushed to death\u2019 13 times hours before incidentSouth Korea\u2019s national police agency on has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city\u2019s Yongsan district office as it investigates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,2798,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910\/revisions\/49929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}