South Korean police are seeking criminal charges against 23 officials for a lack of safety measures they said were responsible for a crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people. 9News
Those officers were focused on monitoring narcotics use and violent crimes, which experts say left few resources for pedestrian safety.South Korean police said they are seeking charges of involuntary manslaughter and negligence against 23 officials, for a lack of safety measures they said were responsible for a crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people in October.
The results of the 74-day police investigation announced by Son mostly confirmed what was already clear — that police and public officials in Yongsan failed to employ meaningful crowd control measures for the expected numbers of Halloween revellers and essentially ignored pedestrian calls placed to police hotlines that warned of a swelling crowd hours before the surge turned deadly on October 28.
He said police investigators studied more than 180 video files recorded on security cameras or taken by journalists and pedestrians and jointly inspected the scene with forensic experts to analyse the density of the crowd.
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