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Seoul disaster - A Tragedy on Halloween night

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by aposhark, Oct 30, 2022.

  1. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    From the BBC:

    154 people have died in a crush in South Korea's capital, Seoul
    Another 133 were injured, Yonhap news agency reports.

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    Travel blogger Sia Liljas was in Itaewon last night and tells the BBC News Channel she and her husband "barely managed to get out" from the crowds.

    Ms Liljas says she posted a video of the crowds on social media at 22:21, just as reports were coming in that people had fallen in the crowd.

    She says they started walking on a street that "felt quite spacious" but the area got "tighter and tighter".

    "We started noticing that people just wanted to move forward, so they started pushing, laughing a little bit [and] pushing for fun," she tells the BBC.

    "The crowd started pushing back; the pushing intensified... I remember turning to my husband and saying 'This doesn't feel right, we need to get out of here'."

    Ms Liljas says her knees and legs were shaking at the sheer effort it took for her and her husband to push their way out of the crowd.

    "As we went onto another street, we just heard ambulance after ambulance after ambulance and we knew something was going on."
    aposhark, Oct 30, 2022
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    Druk1 Well-Known Member

    Reminds me of the Langkawi fong crush when I lived in Hong Kong, but on a far larger scale, absolute tragedy R, I, P
    Druk1, Oct 30, 2022
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    Thankfully Ana was at work, in the past she has lived in Itaewon but she's in a province now and working in the province according to my daughter, I wasn't sure exactly where Ana was right now and tried to contact her yesterday when I heard of this terrible tragedy.
    oss, Oct 30, 2022
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Glad Ana wasn't anywhere near the awful tragedy, Jim.
    aposhark, Oct 31, 2022
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    Do they know exactly what caused this horrible stampede?

    My wife seems to be of the idea that some local celebrities were spotted out and about and everyone started chasing them for selfies..
    Celebrities which sadly were caught in the crush and subsequently died.

    Certainly a shocking occurrence.
    R.I.P.
    Aromulus, Oct 31, 2022
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

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