What transpired during the Seoul Halloween festivities?
some local media reports said a large number of people had rushed to the area after hearing an unidentified celebrity had been there. Witnesses said people had flooded into the narrow downhill alley near the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon.
The victims were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities near the Hamilton Hotel in the Itaewon area.
Footage on social media showed many victims lying on the pavement as workers from the emergency services and bystanders performed CPR in an effort to revive them.
![A man covers the dead in Seoul's Itaewon entertainment district after a stampede during Seoul Halloween festivities on Saturday [Jeon Heon-kyun/EPA-EFE]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Seooul.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise, with 150 people injured and a number of them in critical condition in a hospital after the stampede during the Seoul Halloween festivities.
Most of the bodies have been sent to hospitals, while the rest are being taken to a nearby gym so that they can be identified, he added.
Other videos from the scene show body bags, emergency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying to pull unconscious people trapped beneath others after the fatal crowd surge.
South Korea’s president Yoon Suk-yeol urged officials to quickly identify victims for the sake of worried families, as many revelers are still unaccounted for. Local media said around 100,000 people headed to Itaewon for the Halloween festivities, which were the biggest in years following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in recent months.
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