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As bereaved families and friends struggle to make sense of a Halloween crowd crush that killed 156 people in South Korea's capital, their grief is mixed with anger about officials' failure to employ crowd controls in a small nightlife district jammed with tens of thousands of partiers.
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. As bereaved families and friends struggle to make sense of a Halloween crowd crush that killed 156 people in South Korea's capital, their grief is mixed with anger about officials' failure to employ crowd controls in a small nightlife district jammed with tens of thousands of partiers. World News | Families, Friends Struggle to Cope After Seoul Crush.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – As bereaved families and friends struggle to make sense of a Halloween crowd crush that killed 156 people in South Korea’s capital, their grief is mixed with anger about officials’ failure to employ crowd controls in a small nightlife district jammed with tens of thousands of partiers. Many expressed wrenching […]
“I texted him, I guess it was like an hour or so before this tragedy happened, saying, ‘I know you're out and about, but I love you. Be careful. Be safe.’ That was the last text between us. There was no response,” Steve Blesi tells Inside Edition.
Saturday’s disaster was concentrated in a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors recalling a “hell-like” chaos.