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mhorrendous that it happened to so many people. and it doesn t take that much force to break ribs and even kick a kill as you ve described. absolutely. there were studies done for crowd safety and it looked at various experiments on humans and data published, which you can t replicate now because of course it is significant risk to anybody exposed to high pressure and high density. but it takes five people pushing against one to collapse a rib or smash a head. and if you have that multiplied by tens of thousands of people, it just doesn t bear belief. it is utterly horrendous. the fact that this was the first big post-covid event in seoul, i mean what role might that have played here? ....
SEOUL, South Korea A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea s worst disaster in years. ....
Suffering the heartbreak of losing loved ones. reporter: it is a very somber atmosphere here in the heart of seoul s entertainment district of itaewon. people have been coming to lay flowers to show their respects. kim? all right, just so tragic. paula hancocks live in seoul, thanks so much. i want to discuss this a bit more with keith still, analyst of crowd safety and risk. he joins us this hour from england. thanks so much for being here with us. so why do you think this was so deadly. i mean, talk to me about the physics of what made this such a deadly event. certainly. i mean, the analogy here is, like a tachometer in a car. when you rev the engine in the red, there s a high chance of engine failure. same with crowd density. once the density, the packing density, the number of people per square meter increases above six or seven, there s a high ....