Shoes, glasses, clothes… Police have collected hundreds of items from the dead and injured in the deadly avalanche on Hallowen
Hundreds of bloody slippers, broken glasses, stuffed animals… Seoul police have recovered nearly one and a half tons of lost items during the deadly stampede unleashed on Saturday night in the bustling Itaewon neighborhood during the Halloween celebrations. The families of the 150 deceased, who will be burying their loved ones this week, can pick them up at a gym that was previously used as a makeshift morgue. Now the room is filled with rows of personal belongings, carefully arranged and classified.
Most of the victims died in a narrow alley where the hundreds of congregation members were trapped, trampled or crushed to death. Rescue teams arrived at the scene and began pulling victims from the crowd, in a frenzy of work that left behind lost shoes and pieces of clothing, clothes torn to perform CPR techniques.
In the gym, police have stored 260 items of clothing, including scraps of Halloween costumes and 256 pairs of shoes. Also nearly 160 electronic devices, such as headphones, airPods (about twenty) and dozens of watches. Most items are dirty, with traces of blood.
A visibly shocked man presses a piece of clothing tightly to his chest and peers intently at several of the remains found in Itaewon: photos their owners used to carry in their wallets, passports, a Halloween wig. Among the lost items is a Russian translation of the “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” The Russian embassy in South Korea said three Russian citizens had died in the stampede. “June to November, class at 9:00 am,” reads a ‘post-it’ nestled between the crumpled pages of a notebook, as a reminder that most of the victims were in their 20s partying with friends.
Source: La Verdad
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