More than 150 people -- mostly in their teens and 20s -- were killed in a crowd surge and stampede, the cause of which is still unclear, in Seoul's lively Itaewon district.
SEOUL - Party-goers in costumes fleeing in panic, desperate attempts at first aid on the sidewalks, scores of bodies lined up under makeshift shrouds: in Seoul's lively Itaewon district, a Halloween festival turned to tragedy Saturday.
"I said: what are you talking about? And then I went outside to see and there were people doing CPR in the street." The fire department said the dead included 97 women and 54 men, and eye-witnesses told the Yonhap News Agency that smaller people had struggled more in the crowds. "I thought I would be crushed to death too as people kept pushing without realising there were people falling down at the start of the stampede," they added.
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