A serious stampede was found in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. According to a news released by the South Korean fire department on the 30th local time, the trampled has caused 151 deaths and 82 injuries, including 3 Chinese citizens, . Rescue personnel are still conducting secondary searches and rescue around the accident site, and the number of deaths may continue to increase.
Itaewon was originally a famous local business district and a bar street. It is very popular on weekends. And that day is Halloween again. Itaewon, Seoul, is one of the most popular Halloween gatherings in South Korea. More than 100,000 young people gathered near Itaewon to attend Halloween gatherings.
Someone said that a famous pop singer appeared in a nearby bar, attracting many young people to flock in. The street where the accident occurred was a narrow slope with dense crowds of people. The original people were close to the people and moved forward little by little. As a result, a group of people walked in the direction of the people. Some people retreated and fell down at the scene, and the abortion in the rear continued to follow, resulting in a serious stampede accident.
Someone said: Because it is a slope and there are many people, after a slightest fall, the people behind it will easily fall down, which will eventually lead to the crowd falling like domino .
Because the traffic of people is too large, Even if the people in the core know that someone has fallen, the crowd rushing in from behind will cause the other party to walk forward uncontrollably. People who are unaware of the outside world are still moving forward, so that the crowd becomes more and more dead as the crowd is blocked. Even if they do not fall at this time, they may be suffocated by the crowd squeeze.
Stampage accidents are not just as simple as being trampled after falling down, but more people die from suffocation.
A survivor of Itaewon accident recalled: It was not very crowded at the beginning, and he was able to walk normally, but it gradually became congested. During this process, I felt a violent squeezing feeling, and it was very uncomfortable to be squeezed, and it was even difficult to breathe for a moment...
"My most real feeling is that is difficult to breathe, and I even felt a little pain in my heart."
Someone said: I felt a few hundred kilograms of stone pressing on me, and the people behind me were still squeezing forward. Fortunately, I am tall enough and can stretch my neck to breathe, while a short girl on the right side of cried until she died.
Another survivor said: It was walking normally, but suddenly there were many people coming. The people in front were squeezing back and the people in back were squeezing forward. We were sandwiched in the middle. was almost unable to breathe, and our feet were already off the ground. Later, I saw many people in the middle climbing up the electric box next to me, so I climbed up on the beer box and temporarily stayed away from the crowd. This was the closest time I had to die.
An anchor was broadcasting live at the scene of the accident. In the live broadcast, you can hear the sound of disco and screams, but the screaming is not for the music, but because of the terrifying suffocation. The trapped people kept screaming, and many people could hear crying in despair. I wonder if they were finally rescued.
If you fall, it is even more terrible. After someone falls, the followers will fall one after another, just like a stacked man, stacked to 5-6 layers of people, which will eventually lead to trampling or suffocation.
When the police were rescued, was squeezed too severely, so the police were so close that they could not pull out even if they tried hard to pull a person.
Why did a stampede accident cause a large number of people to suffocate and die?
This is because when we breathe, we need thoracic dilation to complete it. . In the squeezing accident, the chest cavity is severely squeezed and there is no room for expansion. At this time, you will feel breathless, and even the more you exhale, the more you breathe, because the chest cavity will compress when you exhale, and the space just released by the chest cavity will be squeezed again, so that you can't breathe at all.
If the head is tall enough and the chest cavity is not compacted, then you can still breathe, but if the head is short and the chest cavity is completely compacted by the crowd, it is easy to suffocate and die.
Research shows that when the population density is less than 2 people per square meter, people can move freely;
When the density reaches 3-4 people per square meter, their movements are blocked, but they are not easy to fall;
When the density reaches 5 people per square meter, their activities are blocked;
When the density reaches more than 9 people per square meter, they are prone to stampede accidents. After the people in the center of the accident fall, the people behind are still unaware of the situation and will continue to squeeze forward, and eventually large-scale casualties occur.
In the stampede accident in Itaewon, South Korea, because the traffic was too dense, the people behind did not know what was happening in front, so some people died because of the stampede, while another group of people were dancing on the street, even the sound of discorating and shouting, and the sound of first aid was superimposed.
There are also some unknown people who find rows of corpses lying on the street after the dance, leaving a psychological impact on many people.
At present, the Itaewon stampede accident is still under investigation, which is another large-scale casualty accident in South Korea after the Sewol tragedy in 2014.
