A thorough inquiry into the Halloween crush that killed more than 150 people in the capital over the weekend and sent the nation into a week of grief would be conducted, South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo promised on Monday.According to officials, 154 people have died and 149 have been injured, with 33 of them in critical condition. There were at least twenty different nations’ citizens among the dead.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of revellers jammed Seoul’s famed Itaewon neighborhood’s winding alleys and lanes for the first essentially unrestrained Halloween celebrations in three years. Many of the partygoers were dressed in costumes and in their teens or twenties.
