South Korean police are investigating what caused a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people including 26 foreigners during Halloween festivities in Seoul last weekend in the country’s worst disaster in years.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and tens of thousands of others paid respects to the dead at special mourning sites, reports AP.
Saturday’s disaster was concentrated in a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors recalling a “hell-like” chaos with people falling on each other like dominoes.
Police said they’ve launched a 475-member task force to investigate the crush.
Senior police officer Nam Gu-Jun told reporters Monday that officers have obtained videos taken by about 50 security cameras in the area and are also analyzing video clips posted on social media.
They have interviewed more than 40 witnesses and survivors so far, he added.
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