It is the worst peacetime disaster in South Korea since 2014, when 300 people died after the Sewol ferry sank.
Saturday night’s incident in Seoul’s Itaewon leisure district is the worst peacetime disaster in South Korea since 2014, when 300 people died after the Sewol ferry sank, the newspaper reported.
Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said 74 of the dead have been sent to hospital, according to . The bodies of the remaining 46, who were kept on the streets, were being transported to a nearby gym so that workers could identify them, the news organization reported.. “It looked like I would have died if I had fallen.”
Breaking News: At least 120 people were killed and another 100 injured after they were crushed in a large Halloween crowd in Seoul on Saturday night, the city's fire department said.
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