At Least 120 Useless in South Korea After Reported Crowd Surge in Itaewon

A number of individuals are feared lifeless after dozens of lifeless our bodies required CPR in South Korea Saturday throughout what seems to be a mass gathering that became a crowd surge.

A number of movies and photographs are circulating on social media proper now displaying numerous folks laid out on the ground within the streets of Itaewon — a well-liked neighborhood in Seoul — and receiving chest compressions from each first responders and bystanders alike.

The photographs are scary … as plenty of these of us do not appear to have any indicators of consciousness — and you may inform how frantic of a scene it’s by the response.

Reviews on the bottom say upwards of 100 folks had been injured whole — with a big quantity purportedly having gone into cardiac arrest as effectively. There are indicators a number of fatalities may consequence from this — some photographs present cops placing tarps over what appear to be lifeless our bodies … however there is no official rely of lives past simply 2, per NYT.

The rationale all these folks congregated right here is as a result of it is one of many largest Halloween get-togethers there in Seoul — studies say tens of hundreds of individuals had packed into the comparatively tight alleyways, which some speculate possible triggered a stampede of some type.

One rumor floating round — which hasn’t been substantiated — is that the gang crush was attributable to of us speeding towards a bar there in Itaewon after phrase of a celeb sighting … though it is unclear who precisely it’d’ve been, if anybody.

S. Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has dispatched emergency providers to Seoul, and the mayor is on his manner again from a global journey to survey the injury and get briefed.