On the evening of October 29th local time, a large-scale stampede occurred in Itaewon area of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. According to CCTV News, South Korea's fire department said that the accident has killed 2 people and injured more than 50 people. On the evening of the 29th, several Chinese respondents in South Korea recalled the situation to Nandu reporters that night, saying that there was a Halloween event that day, and there were many performances near Itaewon and Hongi University , and there were many students on the scene, mainly young people. The street where the accident occurred was a narrow slope with dense crowds. "People are close to people and cannot walk at all, and they are moving forward little by little." A group of people walked in the direction of the flow of people, and someone retreated and fell down at the scene.
According to CCTV News, on the evening of October 29, local time, a stampede occurred in Itaewon, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. South Korean fire department said that a total of 81 people have had dyspnea and more than 50 people have suffered cardiac arrest, and 2 have been confirmed to have died. The fire department and the police rushed to the scene after receiving the call at around 22:40, and implemented emergency measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the fainting personnel, and sent the injured to the hospital. South Korean President Yoon Seo-yeol After giving two emergency instructions on the accident, he held an "emergency inspection meeting" at the Yongsan Presidential Office in the early morning of the 30th local time. Yoon Seo-yue instructed that with the Ministry of Administrative Safety as the center, all relevant departments should do their best to provide quick first aid and treatment for the injured.
Itaewon, Seoul, is one of the most popular Halloween gatherings in South Korea. According to Korean media reports, on the afternoon of the 29th, more than 100,000 people gathered near Itaewon to attend a Halloween party.
29 On the evening of the 29th, Zhou, a student studying in South Korea, told Nandu reporters that she also went to Itaewon for a trip that night and arrived at around 19 o'clock. Because there were too many people at the scene, she took the subway home at around 20 o'clock and avoided the accident. "The traffic of people is particularly large, so much that it is so suffocating that it can hang its feet in the air. When I left, I had already posted on social platforms and called on everyone not to go there." Zhou introduced that Halloween is approaching, and the venues for the celebration of Halloween in South Korea are basically in the city, and Itaewon is one of the popular places. It is usually very lively and has many bars. Foreigners also like to go there to play. On Halloween in previous years, Itaewon was also very lively, with the flow of people similar to that day.
Another Korean student Guo, who left the scene before the incident, told Nandu reporters that there was a Halloween event that day, there were many performances near Itaewon and Hongi University, and there were many students on the scene, mainly young people.
Ms. Chen, a migrant worker in South Korea who passed by the stampede accident, told Nandu reporters that she was also at the scene of the stampede accident that night, but was at a slightly ahead of the street. The street where the accident occurred was a narrow slope with dense crowds. "People are close to people and cannot walk at all, and they are moving forward little by little." A group of people walked in the direction of the flow of people, and someone retreated and fell down at the scene.
Editor: Nandu reporter Fang Shiqi
