A visitor puts a mourning message for victims of the 2022 deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon on a board set up at the site of the accident ahead of the tragedy’s first anniversary. — Korea Herald/ANN
A YEAR after the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district that claimed 159 lives, survivors and bereaved families still seek the truth behind the bungled disaster response and a proper closure to their loss, South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.
The crowd crush, the deadliest ever in South Korea, took place in the nightlife district of Itaewon on Oct 29, 2022, a Saturday night when about 100,000 people flocked to the area for Halloween celebrations.
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