“It’s sad and difficult to tell you this that support plans for the victims’ families have not been decided yet,” the official said.
Her son, Masela, went to work at a club in the city’s Itaewon area around 6 p.m. on Saturday. That was the last time Aby, a Seoul resident from the Ivory Coast, saw him.
Officers at the centre manned emergency phone lines, taking hundreds of frantic calls to find missing people. An official at the funeral home said there were at least two bodies from the incident at the facility on Sunday. “If the family would want to find out the cause of the death, then they could request an autopsy, but for these bodies, the cause of death seems pretty clear to me.”
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