'Most of the casualties are young people who are like our daughters and sons,' Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said.
after the surge shows chaos on the streets with partygoers and medical personnel together performing CPR on people lying on the ground. Photographers then captured the bodies of people who had died from cardiac arrest lined up on the street, covered in sheets and blankets.Emergency workers and others assist people who were caught in a Halloween stampede in the district of Itaewon in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2022.
In the early hours of Sunday, as news about the tragedy reach them, families rushed to a nearby community center hoping to hear about their loved ones.that their daughter's friends called to tell them that they saw her lying on the street and later being carried away. "The last message I got from our daughter was 'Dad, I’m going to Seoul for the first time in a long time.' She is 20 years old this year. I just hope she is alive," the father told JoongAng Daily.
It's unclear what caused the crowd surge. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who went to Itaewon to assess the scene on Sunday, has called for an investigation.that he was in the crowd and there was nothing anyone could do to escape or help others. "I couldn't sleep last night," he told the BBC on Sunday."I can still see people dying in front of me."A police guard on the accident site in Itaewon in Seoul, South Korea on Oct. 30, 2022.
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