Despite the 137 police officers gathered in the area, no special measures were taken regarding the control of people in the alley where the tragedy took place.
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South Korean police admitted on Monday that they had not foreseen the… halloween festivities on Saturday night in Seoul’s Itaweon neighborhood could cause a human avalanche that killed at least 154 people, 26 of whom were foreigners. The victims were young, mostly in their teens and twenties.
“A large number of people were expected to gather there. But we did not expect large-scale casualties as a result of this event,” said Hong Ki-hyun, head of the South Korean Police’s Public Order Management Office.
Police had previously reported that they expected a large concentration of about 100,000 people at the party. However, according to Hong, the number of people was comparable to that of other years or slightly higher, although he could not confirm whether the rate at which they started collecting was higher than in previous years. He also pointed out that officers in the area “didn’t notice a sudden increase in the crowd”.
Despite the 137 police officers gathered in the area, no special measures were taken regarding the control of people in the alley where the tragedy took place.
The accident happened when a crowd gathered on a street about four meters wide, downhill, next to the Hamilton Hotel in downtown Itaewon on Saturday night. According to witnesses, crowds began to gather in the area during the day and by nightfall tens of thousands of people filled the narrow streets of the neighborhood.
In the aftermath of the avalanche, hundreds of people were trapped, some for more than an hour, and as a result many, most women in their 20s, suffocated from suffocation. there are others 33 people seriously injured.
After the drama experienced, South Korea has stated: national mourning for a week for the worst tragedy the country has seen since the sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students.
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