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Halloween night · Seoul, South Korea · 2022

159 lives lost

No organiser. No plan. 100,000 people in narrow alleys. 79 emergency calls warning of a crush — before it happened.

Memorial for the victims of the Seoul Halloween crowd crush, Jongno-gu — Memorial for the victims of the Seoul Halloween crowd crush, Jongno-gu · Bonnielou2013, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia — Seoul Halloween crowd crush · PMC — Unravelling the Seoul Halloween crowd-crush · Wikimedia Commons — Jongno-gu memorial for the victims