UPDATED. Authorities are still investigating the exact cause of the incident.
SEOUL, South Korea – At least 146 people were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, October 29, emergency officials said.
“A number of people fell during a Halloween festival, and we have a large number of casualties,” Choi said. Many of those killed were near a nightclub.Witnesses described chaotic scenes moments before the stampede, with the police on hand in anticipation of the Halloween event at times having trouble maintaining control of the crowds.“It was at least more than 10 times crowded than usual,” he told Reuters.
Choi, the Yongsan district fire chief, said all the deaths were likely from the crush in the single narrow alley. A Reuters witness said a make-shift morgue was set up in a building adjacent to the scene. About four dozen bodies were carried out later on wheeled stretchers and moved to a government facility to identify the victims, according to the witness.
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