MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Police Agency of South Korea will request to carry out an investigation on the local commissioner of the Yongsan district, in Seoul, and on the officer in charge of supervising emergencies in the metropolitan area of ??the South Korean capital.
The decision comes after criticism of the police increased following revelations that officers did little to prevent the human stampede at a Halloween party in Seoul last Saturday, especially after 11 emergency calls came in. They warned about overcrowding four hours before the deadly crush, as reported by Yonhap.
For this reason, the South Korean National Police will request a special investigation team to investigate Lee Im Jae, the head of the Yongsan Police Station who watches over the Itaewon neighborhood — where the incident took place — for negligence of his duties. , and Ryu Mi Jin, who was in charge of monitoring the situation at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency at the time.
More specifically, Ryu has been accused of neglecting her duties to quickly recognize the emergency situation and report it to the Seoul Police Chief and the situation room of the National Police Agency.
Lee also neglected his duties to command the police response to the stampede by arriving at the site too late and reporting the situation to higher levels late, police officials have detailed to the aforementioned agency.
In this sense, the National Police Agency has removed Ruy and Lee from the service and placed them on “disciplinary hold”.
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.
