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 came just a day after the National Police Agency admitted that 11 emergency calls came in warning of overcrowding in the Itaewon neighborhood, all four hours before the deadly crowd and with no action taken, Yonhap reported.
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 Disaster and Safety Measures Headquarters put the death toll at 156 and the number of injured at 151 as a result of the human stampede that unfolded on Saturday night during a Halloween celebration in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood.
So far, a total of 55 men and 101 women have lost their lives as a result of this event, most were around 20 years old, although a dozen of the dead were over 40, as reported by the authorities and has collected the Yonhap news agency.
A large concentration of people in a narrow alley just four meters wide very close to the Hamilton Hotel, with a slope that formed a downhill slope, generated that people began to fall on each other, so hundreds of people reported breathing difficulties and 45 died on the spot.
