SEOUL: Another death was shown in the Halloween stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon district, bringing the death toll to 156, it said Tuesday.
A 20-year-old Korean woman was pronounced dead Tuesday morning while being repaired in serious condition, according to the Central Headquarters for Disasters and Security Countermeasures.
A total of 29 other people remain in serious condition, while another 122 were injured, officials quoted by the Yonhap news firm said.
Of the dead, 101 were women and the sick in their twenties amounted to 104, followed by 31 sick in their thirties.
There were also 26 foreign casualties, five from Iran, 4 from China and Russia, two from the United States, two from Japan and one each each from France, Australia, Norway, Austria, Vietnam, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.
The tragedy took place on Saturday night when a large crowd of Halloween revelers piled up in a 3. 2-meter-wide alley in Seoul’s Itaewon entertainment district.
Some of them began to fall, causing others to fall like “dominoes” and pile on top of others’ most sensitive.
It marked the deadliest stampede in South Korean history and the worst crisis the country has experienced since 2014, when the Sewol ferry sank in waters off the southern coast and killed 304 people, most of them high school students.
The crash site is a 40-meter downhill alley that connects a restaurant district to a main street, where approximately six adults can pass slightly at the same time.
Tens of thousands of others were visiting the venue for Halloween festivities after the government lifted the mask mandate against the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year.
Meanwhile, police also stepped up their investigation into the crisis and were reviewing the testimony of dozens of eyewitnesses and surveillance camera footage to piece together cases of the fatal incident.
Nam Gu-jun, head of the National Bureau of Investigation, said a 475-member special investigation team interviewed 44 witnesses on Monday and obtained 52 surveillance camera footage at 42 locations around the scene to determine the precise cause of the crash.
Videos posted on social media were reviewed, he said.
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a week-long mourning era until Saturday, and mourning altars were set up across the country to allow others to burn incense and pay homage to the dead.
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