South Korea Crowd Surge Turns Deadly: Latest News - The New York Times

SEOUL — At slightest 120 radical were killed and different 100 injured aft they were crushed successful a ample Halloween assemblage successful Seoul connected Saturday night, the city’s occurrence section said. The assemblage surge happened during 1 of the astir raucous celebrations of the twelvemonth successful the South Korean capital.

Of those who were confirmed dead, 46 were successful the hospital, the occurrence section said, with the remainder taken to a adjacent gymnasium.

A procession of medics with stretchers is moving. Each is carting a assemblage to an ambulance lined up connected the thoroughfare intersecting the main Itaewon road.

At slightest 120 radical were killed and an further 100 were injured aft they were crushed nether a ample Halloween assemblage successful Itaewon, cardinal Seoul, said Choi Seong-beom, main of Seoul’s Yongsan occurrence department. Mr. Choi said that immoderate of the injured could dice too. Of those who were confirmed dead, 46 were successful hospital, with the remainder taken to a adjacent gymnasium.

A question of firefighters equipped with flashlights arrived and disappeared into the taped-off alleyway. They would not accidental what they were investigating.

Four blue-uniformed medics are carting a assemblage connected a stretcher connected Itaewon Road, close extracurricular the tract of the fatal surge.

Itaewon developed arsenic a territory of bars, nightclubs and shops catering to American soldiers based adjacent successful the decades aft the Korean War. Now, it is 1 of the astir fashionable neighborhoods successful Seoul, known for its nightlife, young patrons, overseas tourists and stylish restaurants.

The stampede began astatine a constrictive alleyway, close extracurricular exit 2 of Itaewon station, extracurricular a enactment of bars that included, among others, Oasis Bar & Cafe, Gathering and Ravo.

At slightest 59 radical were killed and an further 150 were injured aft they were crushed successful a ample Halloween assemblage successful Itaewon, cardinal Seoul, said Choi Seong-beom, the main of Seoul’s Yongsan occurrence department. Thirteen of those killed were taken to the hospital, with the remainder inactive astatine the scene.

“The apical precedence is to evacuate and prevention the victims. We should instrumentality them to urgent aesculapian attraction arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” President Yoon Suk Yeol told his cabinet, according to his office.

The assemblage has subsided arsenic the constabulary instrumentality over. Several bodies covered successful yellowish sheets were sent disconnected successful ambulances. Late-night partygoers, immoderate successful Halloween attire, are inactive moving their mode home.

An affectional bystander astatine the country who witnessed the lawsuit said helium saw bodies, limp, connected the street. “I privation I hadn’t, but I did,” helium said. “It was heartbreaking.”

A fleet of ambulances are parked extracurricular an Itaewon venue wherever the stampede occurred. Trash is spewed each on the bare streets, which are present blocked by a phalanx of yellow-vested police.

A wellness idiosyncratic adjacent the country told The New York Times that she administered CPR to 10 radical lying successful the street.