South Korea probes Halloween crowd surge as nation mourns | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
SEOUL--South Korean police investigated on Monday what caused a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people including 26 foreigners during Halloween festivities in Seoul in the country’s worst disaster in years, as President Yoon Suk Yeol and tens of thousands of others paid respects to the dead at special mourning sites.