Jimi News Reporter Hu Li
Local time on the evening of October 29th local time, a stampede occurred at a Halloween party in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. 153 people have been killed, including 4 Chinese citizens.
Jimu News reporter contacted Xiao C (pseudonym), a Chinese student studying in Korea. Xiao C introduced that South Korea itself has many sloped road surfaces. On the day of the accident, many people attended Halloween activities, resulting in the traffic exceeding the range that Itaewon itself can withstand. On a downhill road, the people in front were pushed down, and the people in the rear did not know what was happening in front, so they continued to act. As a result, the people in the rear fell on the people in front one after another, resulting in the tragedy. "
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, and Xiao C herself is relatively lucky. When the accident happened, she happened to be having dinner in a nearby restaurant and did not participate in Halloween carnival, and escaped.
It is reported that due to the epidemic, South Korea has not held a large-scale Halloween event for two years. This year's Halloween event attracted a lot of people to participate. According to Korean media such as the Korean Ilbo, more than 100,000 people gathered in Seoul that night to celebrate Halloween. After the accident, Xiao C heard the sound of ambulances and fire trucks whizzing by in the restaurant. Many rescue vehicles were rushing to the scene, and she herself wanted to go to the scene to see the situation. Unexpectedly, what I'm afraid there were many people outside the cordon, so she could only look from a distance and couldn't get too close.
In addition, after the accident, according to Yonghap News Agency , there were rumors that people in Itaewon at that time flooded into the alley where the incident occurred because they wanted to see a star. There were rumors that some people were too excited to eat candy containing drug ingredients.
Regarding this, Xiao C also revealed that she heard people talking about it near the scene and said It was because the people participating in the event were too mixed. Some people may have taken drugs or drank too much alcohol to cause too much excitement, which caused the tragedy. In addition, there were rumors that South Korean police seized drugs disguised as candy.
However, as of now, the specific cause of the accident has not been found out. South Korean police said that they have not received any reports related to drugs in the accident.
Xiao C said: "Last night, some friends participated in the Itaewon event, but they all returned safely. ”
