Sensitive Stampede in Itaewon: 154 dead, 133 injured (1 Viewer)

[LeeHoseok]

This is horrific.
Please, if you are sensitive and on social media, avoid the Itaewon trending topics.
The photos and videos are graphic.
My heart goes out to all of those lost, injured, or affected by this tragedy.

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[Jewel]

Omg, poor people.

 

[Boyo]

I accidentally watched a video of it, horrible.
I don’t know what happened, but such a tragic.

 

[shika]

Awful. Nothing else to say

 

[LeeHoseok]

I accidentally watched a video of it, horrible.
I don’t know what happened, but such a tragic.

I'm sorry you had to see that.
Overcrowding led to a stampede.

 

[Day]

This is so scary, I hope everyone ends up okay

 

[LeeHoseok]

This is so scary, I hope everyone ends up okay

Sadly 59 people are already reported dead with over 150 injured.

 

[LeeHoseok]

Another tragic update: The death toll has been raised to 120.

 

[lily]

I'm so sorry to the victims....I feel like this could have been prevented. Where were the security measures?

Always risky to go to crowded area

 

[LeeHoseok]

I'm so sorry to the victims....I feel like this could have been prevented. Where were the security measures?

Always risky to go to crowded area

Itaewon is a crowded place, in general. I feel police could have done better crowd control, but at the same time, it was a narrow road on a hill lined with bars, just all around a bad area.

 

[lily]

Itaewon is a crowded place, in general. I feel police could have done better crowd control, but at the same time, it was a narrow road on a hill lined with bars, just all around a bad area.

Looks like this event had no covid restrictions, causing more people to go. they shouldn't have lifted the restriction and did more crowd control and thought ahead of time.

 

[Soogi]

thats horrifying, such a terrifying disaster to get caught in..

 

[LeeHoseok]

Looks like this event had no covid restrictions, causing more people to go. they shouldn't have lifted the restriction and did more crowd control and thought ahead of time.

Restrictions have been lifted many places, it's possible this would have eventually happened anyways. The area's design basically guarantees it. Crowd control, yes, they could have done better, but who knows if they predicted this turnout.

 

[lily]

Restrictions have been lifted many places, it's possible this would have eventually happened anyways. The area's design basically guarantees it. Crowd control, yes, they could have done better, but who knows if they predicted this turnout.

Aww it is really sad to hear. I would avoid looking at videos or images.

Probably a lot of kpop events will be cancelled next week out of respect for the victims

 

[LeeHoseok]

Aww it is really sad to hear. I would avoid looking at videos or images.

Probably a lot of kpop events will be cancelled next week out of respect for the victims

I've seen many of them and the level of disaster is just shocking. Korea is going to have to take a hard look at themselves for the failure in prevention & response to this incident.
I would assume they'll delay/cancel quite a bit.

 

[LeeHoseok]

Death toll has risen to 146, with 150 injured.

 

[Boyo]

Death toll has risen to 146, with 150 injured.

So many precious life. :(

 

[Yerichu]

I wonder how everyone got stampede so quickly , wow... 😔 😟 🙁

 

[LeeHoseok]

I wonder how everyone got stampede so quickly , wow... 😔 😟 🙁

The street was at an incline. It was like dominoes.

 

[LeeHoseok]

Latest update from Yonhap puts deaths at 149, with 76 people injured.
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