SEOUL: Nineteen foreigners had been amongst these killed in a stampede at a Halloween occasion in Seoul, South Korea’s fire department told AFP Sunday.
The national fire company mentioned the demise toll from the accident experienced risen to 151 persons, like 19 foreigners, who died in a crowd surge and stampede which took place at about 10:00 pm (1300 GMT) Saturday.
The fireplace agency could not promptly present facts of the nationalities included, but the Yonhap information agency described that it incorporated people today from Iran, Uzbekistan, China and Norway.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a time period of national mourning Sunday, indicating the federal government would fork out for the health-related treatment of people wounded and the funerals of all those who died.
“In the centre of Seoul, a tragedy and disaster happened that ought to not have occurred,” Yoon reported in a national deal with.
The catastrophe happened in the capital’s Itaewon district, wherever community reports mentioned as a lot of as 100,000 folks — generally in their teens and 20s — had gone to celebrate Halloween, clogging the area’s narrow alleyways and winding streets.
Of the lifeless, 97 ended up woman and 54 have been male, reported Choi Seong-beom, head of the hearth department in Yongsan, which involves Itaewon, Yonhap reported.
Choi mentioned 82 men and women ended up injured including 19 critically, though the Ministry of Inside reported 150 men and women had been wounded.
The stampede, the deadliest in South Korea’s latest history, occurred in a narrow downhill alley in the vicinity of Hamilton Hotel, with eyewitnesses describing scenes of stress as people “fell like dominoes”, Yonhap documented.
“A quick human being like me could not even breathe,” a person female eyewitness advised Yonhap.
“It appears like individuals in the center suffered the most,” she stated.
The national fire company mentioned the demise toll from the accident experienced risen to 151 persons, like 19 foreigners, who died in a crowd surge and stampede which took place at about 10:00 pm (1300 GMT) Saturday.
The fireplace agency could not promptly present facts of the nationalities included, but the Yonhap information agency described that it incorporated people today from Iran, Uzbekistan, China and Norway.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a time period of national mourning Sunday, indicating the federal government would fork out for the health-related treatment of people wounded and the funerals of all those who died.
“In the centre of Seoul, a tragedy and disaster happened that ought to not have occurred,” Yoon reported in a national deal with.
The catastrophe happened in the capital’s Itaewon district, wherever community reports mentioned as a lot of as 100,000 folks — generally in their teens and 20s — had gone to celebrate Halloween, clogging the area’s narrow alleyways and winding streets.
Of the lifeless, 97 ended up woman and 54 have been male, reported Choi Seong-beom, head of the hearth department in Yongsan, which involves Itaewon, Yonhap reported.
Choi mentioned 82 men and women ended up injured including 19 critically, though the Ministry of Inside reported 150 men and women had been wounded.
The stampede, the deadliest in South Korea’s latest history, occurred in a narrow downhill alley in the vicinity of Hamilton Hotel, with eyewitnesses describing scenes of stress as people “fell like dominoes”, Yonhap documented.
“A quick human being like me could not even breathe,” a person female eyewitness advised Yonhap.
“It appears like individuals in the center suffered the most,” she stated.
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