South Korea: Nine dead in Halloween stampede

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Emily Sørensen

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30/10/2022

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At least 9 individuals were eliminated and lots more hurt after being squashed by a stampede of Halloween revellers in Seoul, SouthKorea

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As numerous as 81 individuals were reported to be having ‘breathing problems’ after countless party-goers pressed through a street in the Itaewon leisure district.

About 50 individuals are believed to have actually entered into heart attack, news firm Yonhap reported.

Officials state a minimum of 9 are dead.

Alarming video revealed residents, policemans and emergency situation medical employees carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation on lots of individuals depending on the street.

Itaewon Halloween — The narrow street heaved with individuals prior to the crowd rise (Picture: Twitter)

TOPSHOT - The bodies of victims, believed to have suffered from cardiac arrest, are covered with sheets in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. - Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul on October 29, after thousands of people crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon neighbourhood to celebrate Halloween, local officials said. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) — Two individuals have actually been validated dead in a death toll anticipated to increase (Picture: Getty Images)

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A man sits amid the bodies of victims, believed to have suffered cardiac arrest, in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. - Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul, after thousands of people crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon neighbourhood to celebrate Halloween, local officials said. (Photo by Yelim LEE / AFP) (Photo by YELIM LEE/AFP via Getty Images) — Officials fear the death toll will continue to increase (Picture: AFP)

Other images from the scene revealed body bags lining the streets and firemens bring bodies covered with white sheets on stretchers to ambulances.

One clip appeared to reveal responders frantically attempting to conserve individuals from being squashed as individuals were left overdoing top of one another.

Firefighters were contacted us to the celebration hotspot Hamilton Hotel where different Halloween events were being held, authorities stated.

National Fire Agency authorities Choi Cheon- sik stated 100 individuals were supposedly hurt throughout the crowd rise.

Choi stated around 400 rescue employees from around the country had actually been released, consisting of almost all readily available city workers.

President Yoon Suk Yeol called for those who were injured to be treated and urged officials to review the safety protocols for the Halloween festivity sites.

Medical staff attend to a person on a stretcher in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. - Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul, after thousands of people crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon neighbourhood to celebrate Halloween, local officials said. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) — Nearly all of the nation’s available personnel were deployed (Picture: Getty Images)

Medical staff attend to a person on a stretcher in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. - Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul, after thousands of people crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon neighbourhood to celebrate Halloween, local officials said. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) — The crowd surge took place by a popular party hot spot ahead of Halloween (Picture: Getty Images)

epa10273513 A police line surrounds a street in Seoul's Itaewon district after about 50 people fell into cardiac arrest in a stampede during Halloween parties in Seoul, South KOrea, 29 October 2022. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT — Around 100 people were injured during the incident, a fire service official said (Picture: EPA)

He ordered the Ministry of Health and Welfare to deploy disaster medical teams and secure hospital beds for those injured.

Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon, who is on an official visit to Europe, cancelled the rest of his trip and is returning home.

An emergency broadcast has been pinged to every mobile phone in the Yongsan District during people go home due to ‘an emergency accident near Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon’.

Ahead of one of Seoul’s most popular nights of the year, the narrow street was jam-packed with as many as 100,000 people eager to celebrate Halloween.

Some social media users have claimed the surge erupted as a large number of people rushed to a bar to see an unidentified celebrity.

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