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There are 256 pairs of shoes waiting for postulation successful the hall
By Danny Bull
BBC News, Seoul
The items are laid retired neatly successful the astir soundless sports hall: decorator handbags, well-worn trainers, headphones inactive nestled successful their cases.
They are immoderate of the possessions near down arsenic radical desperately tried to flight the crush which took the lives of much than 150 Halloween revellers successful a Seoul neighbourhood connected Saturday.
The Wonhyoro sports centre - usually location to volleyball games and assemblage events - has already played a portion successful this tragedy: it is present that rescuers brought the bodies successful the contiguous aftermath of the disaster.
But present - conscionable days aboriginal - survivors and victims' families person been invited into the hall, truthful they tin prime retired items that belonged to them oregon their loved ones.
On Tuesday, a mates came into the vast, echoey hallway and picked up a achromatic jacket. A radical of girls walked successful and took a brace of achromatic heeled boots, covered successful dirt.
The temper was calm and pensive arsenic radical surveyed the ample rectangles of cloth and integrative picnic tables with their dirtied and crushed items - a grim reminder of the precocious fig of tragic deaths and injured.
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Image caption,Families and survivors person been asked to travel to the hallway to cod their belongings
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Image caption,Trainers, handbags and passports are among the items rescued from the country of the disaster
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Image caption,The items person been cautiously labelled
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Image caption,There are astir 20 pairs of Apple headphones alone, an AFP quality bureau newsman says
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Image caption,About 1.5 tonnes of items were collected from the country successful Seoul
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Image caption,Survivors and relatives of victims tin prime retired possessions that belonged to them oregon their loved ones
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Image caption,Many of the items person been damaged
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Image caption,Some of the covering recovered by constabulary is dirty
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Image caption,A constabulary serviceman said they collected arsenic galore belongings arsenic imaginable "in lawsuit they belonged to victims"
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Image caption,One constabulary serviceman told quality bureau Reuters fewer had travel to cod their belongings truthful far
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