MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A special South Korean police investigation team has raided the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the Yongsan District Police Station, as well as six other police offices, as part of an investigation into the “insolvent” police response to the human stampede. at a Halloween party in Seoul.
The raids have occurred just one day after the National Police Agency admitted that 11 emergency calls had arrived alerting to overcrowding in the Itaewon neighborhood, all four hours before the deadly crush and without such warnings having an impact on measures, as reported by Yonhap.
The eight locations raided also include the Yongsan District Police Office, the Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Headquarters, the Yongsan Fire Station and the Seoul Metro headquarters, officials said.
The latest report from the South Korean Central Headquarters for Security Measures and Disasters raised the number of deaths to 156 and the number of injured to 151 as a result of the human stampede that took place on Saturday night during a Halloween celebration in the Itaewon neighborhood in Seoul. .
So far, a total of 55 men and 101 women have lost their lives as a result of this event, most of them were around 20 years old, although a dozen dead were over 40, as reported by the authorities and has been collected by the agency of Yonhap news.
A large concentration of people in a narrow alley barely four meters wide very close to the Hamilton Hotel, with a slope that formed a downward slope, caused people to begin to fall on each other, for which hundreds of people reported breathing difficulties. and 45 died on the spot.
