Not less than 120 folks had been killed Saturday and a few 100 had been injured in a stampede in central Seoul when hundreds crowded into slender streets to have fun Halloween, officers mentioned.
Hearth Division official Choi Seong-beom mentioned the stampede happened round 10:22 pm (1322 GMT) and most of the victims had been trampled to dying.
Officers had mentioned earlier that fifty folks had been in cardiac arrest and that greater than 140 ambulances had been dispatched to the scene to help the victims.
President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered officers to dispatch first help groups and to swiftly safe hospital beds for these affected, the presidential workplace mentioned.
Video footage from the scene of the crush confirmed folks performing emergency first help on a number of victims who gave the impression to be susceptible on the pavement, whereas rescue employees rushed to assist others.
Round two dozen folks had been completely lined by makeshift blankets on the roadside.
This 12 months’s Halloween is the primary celebration of the occasion because the pandemic broke out in 2020 at which South Koreans haven’t been mandated to put on face masks open air.
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