#SouthKorea: About 81 people have been receiving CPR after suffering from cardiac arrest in #Seoul's #Itaewon area due to overcrowding during the #Halloween festivities in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in Seoul.#Seoul #SouthKoreaNews pic.twitter.com/jizgHz3Nce
— Anmol Tiwari (@AnmolTi49004099) October 29, 2022
omg the itaewon stampede..seeing so many ppl lying on the ground due cardiac arrest likely caused by asphyxiation from crowd crush & the number of ppl giving cpr at the same time is just so scary & heartbreaking 😭 pic.twitter.com/PGTa3eYzev
— sophiechanelala 💜해찬☀️haechan🌻 (@sophiechanelala) October 29, 2022
CPR being given to stampede victims at#itaewon#SouthKorea . pic.twitter.com/44zA2pcyOD
— Kuldip Gadhvi (@kuldip_gadhvi) October 29, 2022
CPR operations on the street, by the rescue teams during the Halloween celebration party.. in South Korea..
— Siraj Noorani (@sirajnoorani) October 29, 2022
where dozens of people were crushed to death..#SouthKorea #Halloween #Seoul #Itaewon #이태원 #이태원사고 #압사사고. pic.twitter.com/huLWnv9yJs
A disaster is happening in Itaewon at the moment. Praying everyone is safe. Dozens of people lying lifeless on the floor receiving CPR from rescue services. About 50 people suffer from Cardiac Arrest and Suffocation.
— Airwind Bautista (@airwindzone) October 29, 2022
Video credits to Nel Gigante
#itaewon #itaewonhalloween pic.twitter.com/UaooSZz5w8
CPR operations, of citizens during a party
— Md fasahathullah siddiqui (@MdFasahathullah) October 29, 2022
The Halloween celebrations.. in South Korea.. video: siraj noorani#SouthKorea #Halloween #Seoul #Itaewon #이태원 #이태원사고 #압사사고 pic.twitter.com/R8J2LdjpCJ
This is so sad, crowd surges are really fatal because of compressive asphyxia, which leads to death. Sincerely sorry and good job to the civilians and medics administering CPR😭#Itaewon #이태원 #Halloween. pic.twitter.com/VMbWcuQMsK
— FAE 🍀💎 (@fae_______) October 29, 2022
More than 100 people have died in a crush among huge Halloween crowds in a popular nightlife area of South Korea’s capital, officials say.
The death toll jumped from 59 to 120 in the last hour, with local media reporting a further 100 injured.
Videos from Seoul’s Itaewon district show body bags on the streets, emergency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying to pull people trapped beneath others.
It is not known what caused the crush.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has called an emergency meeting.
Meanwhile Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, told the AP news agency that the bodies of 13 dead had been sent to hospital while the other 46 remained on the streets. BBC Report