🇰🇷 Chinese social media posts falsely claim a video shows people deliberately swaying before a deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon entertainment district. AFP's claraip_ geolocated the clip to a different district about five miles away
It shows a crowd swaying back and forth on a street while loud music plays in the background.
"More and more videos from Itaewon are leaking out, but this one shocked me the most... If [you] fall down, [you] really can't get back up," the simplified Chinese caption reads.At least 156 people -- mostly in their teens and 20s -- were killed in a deadly crowd crush on October 29 at the first Halloween party after the Covid pandemic in Seoul's Itaewon nightlife district.
South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said police must explain failures to respond to multiple emergency calls ahead of the disaster, AFP
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