SEOUL (AFP) – South Korean police yesterday blamed negligence and planning failures for last year’s Halloween crowd crush in Seoul that killed over 150 people.
Scores of young costumed partygoers, mostly women in their 20s, died in the disaster on October 29 in the capital’s popular Itaewon nightlife area.
A special team that spent months combing through evidence and interviewing officials, said at the end of its probe that there had been massive planning and response failures – but stopped short of blaming any top government or national policy agency officials.
More details on Weekend’s Borneo Bulletin
