Janelle Story was one in every of 1000’s of younger individuals who went to Seoul’s Itaewon district to have fun Halloween final night time.
She and her pals had particularly booked an organised bar crawl as a result of “we knew it was going to be crowded”.
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She describes how she emerged from the primary bar at 9.30pm, about an hour earlier than the crush occurred, to scenes that already felt uncomfortable, however an hour later it was a really totally different story.
“Very suddenly this wave of people just came rushing towards us with this incredible force and urgency, and in the moment, I stopped filming because it got really serious and scary.”
“I felt panic because I don’t like crowds, so I was panicked, and I saw some panicked faces coming towards us because it’s scary, it would take a second for you to fall down.”
What she skilled wasn’t even within the slender alley the place individuals misplaced their lives, however one of many wider adjoining streets, an indication of simply how chaotic the realm had change into.
She says the one police uniform she noticed within the run up was somebody in fancy costume.
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“It’s distressing, it’s confusing, I still have a lot of questions,” she added.
“It wasn’t an unexpected huge event, the city knew there was going to be 100,000 people coming out tonight, it’s the first time since COVID we could actually go out and have a Halloween night!”
“How did this happen, where was the prevention?”
Source: information.sky.com”