Many feared dead in South Korea Halloween crush - BBC

A fig of radical are feared to person died aft crushes among immense Halloween crowds successful a fashionable nightlife country of South Korea's capital.

Emergency officials said dozens were successful cardiac apprehension aft revellers thronged Seoul's Itaewon district.

Videos from the country amusement assemblage bags connected the streets, exigency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying to propulsion radical trapped beneath others.

South Korea's president Yoon Suk-yeol has called an exigency meeting.

It is unclear however galore radical person died, and however galore are injured successful the incident.

In South Korea, section aesculapian officials are apt to accidental lone that idiosyncratic is successful "cardiac arrest" until determination is an authoritative announcement of decease by a doctor.

Around 50 radical were successful cardiac apprehension successful the cardinal neighbourhood, Yonhap quality bureau reported, citing occurrence officials.

There were reportedly 100,000 revellers successful the country celebrating the archetypal outdoor no-mask Halloween lawsuit since the pandemic.

Social media messages posted earlier successful the evening amusement immoderate radical remarking that the Itaewon country was truthful crowded that it felt unsafe.

The BBC's Hosu Lee, who visited the scene, said helium saw "a batch of medial staff, a batch of ambulances, they were taking the bodies distant 1 by one".

Hosu Lee said determination were thousands among the crowds, and a fig of bodies covered successful bluish sheets, alongside a "ton of police".

"A batch of young radical person gathered present tonight. A batch of radical came to the enactment and club, wearing costumes and a batch of radical I've seen distraught and bittersweet and determination are chaotic scenes," said Mr Lee.

Photos and videos amusement a fig of some exigency responders and civilians attending to what look to beryllium unconscious radical connected the streets.

In 1 video galore responders look to beryllium performing CPR connected radical successful a constrictive roadworthy successful the district.

In another, exigency responders effort to propulsion retired radical from what appears to beryllium a heap of people's bodies pursuing a assemblage surge.

Another section writer said that an exigency broadcast had been sent to each mobile telephone successful the Yongsan District urging citizens to instrumentality location arsenic soon arsenic imaginable owed to "an exigency mishap adjacent Hamilton Hotel successful Itaewon".