Officials accidental radical were crushed to decease aft a ample assemblage began pushing guardant successful a constrictive alley adjacent Hamilton Hotel, a large enactment spot successful Seoul.
More than 800 exigency workers and constabulary officers from astir the nation, including each disposable unit successful Seoul, were deployed to the streets to dainty the injured.
The National Fire Agency separately said successful a connection that officials were inactive trying to find the nonstop fig of exigency patients.
TV footage and photos showed ambulance vehicles lined up successful streets amid a dense constabulary beingness and exigency workers moving the injured successful stretchers. Emergency workers and pedestrians were besides seen performing CPR connected radical lying successful the streets.
In 1 section, paramedics were seen checking the presumption of a twelve oregon much radical who lied motionless nether bluish blankets.
Police, which were restricting postulation successful adjacent areas to velocity up the proscription of the injured to hospitals crossed the city, besides confirmed that dozens of radical were being fixed CPR connected Itaewon streets. The Seoul Metropolitan Government issued exigency substance messages urging radical successful the country to swiftly instrumentality home.
Some section media reports earlier said the crush happened aft a ample fig of radical rushed to an Itaewon barroom aft proceeding an unidentified personage visited there.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a connection calling for officials to guarantee swift attraction for those injured and reappraisal the information of the festivity sites. He besides instructed the Health Ministry to swiftly deploy catastrophe aesculapian assistance teams and unafraid beds successful adjacent infirmary to dainty the injured.
Local media said astir 100,000 radical flocked to Itaewon streets for the Halloween festivities, which were the biggest since the commencement of the pandemic pursuing the easing of COVID-19 restrictions successful caller months.
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