Itaewon station no relation crowd collapses and crushes
Crush
Prior to the crowd crush, police had trouble controlling the festivities crowd. Witnesses said the streets, including the narrow downhill alley near Hamilton Hotel, were packed with partygoers. An attendee who arrived earlier in the night, at 19:00 local time, claimed that it took over 10 minutes to go to a meet-up spot about a minute from Itaewon station, because of the number of people. At least seventy-nine emergency calls were made to 112, between 18:00 and 22:00, prior to the crush with the first being made at 18:34. In the call, the caller said that an alley next to the Hamilton hotel was becoming extremely crowded and dangerous. The caller clarified after being prompted by the official that they felt that a large accident could happen if someone was crushed and fell.At 22:08, people in the crowd started shouting. At 22:17, the crowd crush had already spread, according to experts, and the situation was aggravated by additional pressure from both ends of the street. The crowd crush occurred at 22:20 local time (KST), along an alleyway near Itaewon station Exit 1 and the Hamilton Hotel. Videos made by eyewitnesses showed that hundreds of people had been compressed in the narrow alley into a huge mass of bodies, five or six persons deep. One attendee said the crush started when a group of young men pushed others until people started falling. Some survivors claimed that because business hours were over, nearby establishments had blocked people from entering to escape the crush. A viral video showing some people partying and allegedly preventing ambulances from reaching the scene drew anger online.An officer with instructions to wait to be dispatched in response to any crimes that night said that there had been no mention of crowd control that night or the days leading up to Halloween. He noticed the crush while responding to a suspected altercation near the alley, and was recorded attempting to alleviate the flow of people by stopping more people entering the top of the alleyway.A specific, single cause for the accident has not yet been found (as of the end of 2022).
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