South Korea mourns, wants answers after Halloween crush kills 153
Rescue officials load a stretcher with a victim of a Halloween crush, which left at least 150 people dead, into an ambulance in the district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. Anthony Wallace | AFP | Getty Images Shocked family members collected bodies, parents searched for children and a country sought answers on Sunday after at least 153 people were crushed to death when a crowd in South Korea surged in an alleyway during Halloween festivities. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning and designated Seoul’s popular Itaewon district a disaster zone after the Saturday night disaster. “This news came like a bolt from the blue sky,” said a father who burst into tears as he collected his daughter’s body from a morgue in the nation’s capital. A huge crowd celebrating in Itaewon surged into an alley, killing at least 153 people, most of them in their 20s, emergency officials said, adding the death toll could rise. Th...