19 foreigners killed in South Korea stampede
SEOUL: Nineteen foreigners were between individuals killed in a stampede at a Halloween celebration in Seoul, South Korea’s hearth office explained to AFP Sunday.
The nationwide hearth agency claimed the dying toll from the accident had risen to 151 people, including 19 foreigners, who died in a group surge and stampede which transpired at about 10:00 pm (1300 GMT) Saturday.
The hearth company could not promptly supply aspects of the nationalities included, but the Yonhap information company documented that it included people from Iran, Uzbekistan, China and Norway.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a interval of countrywide mourning Sunday, expressing the federal government would pay out for the clinical care of those injured and the funerals of people who died.
“In the centre of Seoul, a tragedy and catastrophe transpired that ought to not have took place,” Yoon reported in a countrywide tackle.
The catastrophe occurred in the capital’s Itaewon district, the place neighborhood studies reported as quite a few as 100,000 people today — typically in their teenagers and 20s — experienced gone to rejoice Halloween, clogging the area’s slim alleyways and winding streets.
Of the useless, 97 ended up woman and 54 ended up male, claimed Choi Seong-beom, head of the fireplace division in Yongsan, which involves Itaewon, Yonhap noted.
Choi explained 82 people today had been injured which includes 19 very seriously, although the Ministry of Inside mentioned 150 folks experienced been hurt.
The stampede, the deadliest in South Korea’s current record, happened in a narrow downhill alley in the vicinity of Hamilton Hotel, with eyewitnesses describing scenes of worry as persons “fell like dominoes”, Yonhap claimed.
“A brief person like me could not even breathe,” 1 woman eyewitness advised Yonhap.
“It appears like persons in the center experienced the most,” she said.
The nationwide hearth agency claimed the dying toll from the accident had risen to 151 people, including 19 foreigners, who died in a group surge and stampede which transpired at about 10:00 pm (1300 GMT) Saturday.
The hearth company could not promptly supply aspects of the nationalities included, but the Yonhap information company documented that it included people from Iran, Uzbekistan, China and Norway.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a interval of countrywide mourning Sunday, expressing the federal government would pay out for the clinical care of those injured and the funerals of people who died.
“In the centre of Seoul, a tragedy and catastrophe transpired that ought to not have took place,” Yoon reported in a countrywide tackle.
The catastrophe occurred in the capital’s Itaewon district, the place neighborhood studies reported as quite a few as 100,000 people today — typically in their teenagers and 20s — experienced gone to rejoice Halloween, clogging the area’s slim alleyways and winding streets.
Of the useless, 97 ended up woman and 54 ended up male, claimed Choi Seong-beom, head of the fireplace division in Yongsan, which involves Itaewon, Yonhap noted.
Choi explained 82 people today had been injured which includes 19 very seriously, although the Ministry of Inside mentioned 150 folks experienced been hurt.
The stampede, the deadliest in South Korea’s current record, happened in a narrow downhill alley in the vicinity of Hamilton Hotel, with eyewitnesses describing scenes of worry as persons “fell like dominoes”, Yonhap claimed.
“A brief person like me could not even breathe,” 1 woman eyewitness advised Yonhap.
“It appears like persons in the center experienced the most,” she said.