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South Korea probes Halloween crowd surge as nation mourns

Hyung-Jin Kim

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Seoul | South Korean police are investigating what caused a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in Seoul last weekend in the country’s worst disasters in years, as President Yoon Suk Yeol and other residents paid respects to the dead at temporary mourning sites.

Saturday’s deadly crowd surge happened at a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighbourhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors recalling a “hell-like” chaos of people falling on each other “like dominoes”.

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