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South Koreans mourn 154 people who died in a Halloween stampede in Seoul
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
South Korea is mourning the victims of the nation's worst crowd disaster on record. Revelers surged down a narrow alley during Halloween celebrations, killing more than 150 people. The exact cause has not yet been determined, but as NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul, many are asking whether police crowd controls could have averted the disaster.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELLS RINGING)
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in non-English language).
ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Buddhist monks chant and strike bells and wooden blocks as mourners lay flowers, candles and liquor at an improvised altar. It's by a subway station in Seoul's hilly, multicultural Itaewon neighborhood. Around 100,000 young partygoers, many in Halloween costumes, packed into the area on Saturday night. Near the altar is the narrow alleyway into which the crowd surged. It runs downhill to Itaewon's main street. Hours after the surge, a bar worker stood at the uphill end of the alleyway. He didn't give his name, but he told reporters what he saw from inside one of the clubs that lined the alley.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Through interpreter) We could hear some people in the crowd saying, don't push. But someone in the back said, hey. Push. Push. And people started screaming, and the crowd poured in toward our club.
KUHN: He said minors aren't allowed into his club, but he let them in to save them.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Through interpreter) But even after that, people collapsed at the entrance, and some passed out. We tried to rescue them, but our club was at the end of the surge, and there were already three or four layers of people piled on, so we couldn't.
KUHN: Police have combed the alley for clues about just what triggered the crowd surge as the country observes a week of national mourning. The National Police Agency said that they had 137 officers on the scene, but they were directing traffic and preventing street crime, not controlling the crowds. But the police should have been better prepared, says Moon Hyeon-cheol, who's a professor in the Department of Police Science at Soongsil University in Seoul.
MOON HYEON-CHEOL: (Speaking Korean).
KUHN: "The large crowd didn't just gather suddenly," he says. "There were plenty of signs from the day and the week before that this was going to happen." The stampede is the latest national tragedy to be seared into South Korea's collective memory. The last big one was the sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014, which killed more than 300 people, most of them high school students. Many blamed the accident on safety violations and lax government regulation. Some South Koreans insist that their country has changed a lot since then. Others, like Jeong Boo-ja, are not so sure. She lost her son on the ferry eight years ago.
JEONG BOO-JA: (Through interpreter) I've heard that when parents went looking for their children, some people wandered for four hours, going from one place to another. How agonizing that must have been. So I thought, nothing has changed.
KUHN: She says she survived the past eight years with the help of fellow citizens, and she came to Itaewon to pay it forward. Her advice to the parents of the stampede victims - find a way to say goodbye to your children. Don't be consumed by grief.
JEONG: (Through interpreter) I'm worried for the parents who will live the rest of their lives thinking about their children in the prison inside their minds.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELLS RINGING)
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in non-English language).
KUHN: Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
Returning remains of 11 blind pupils crushes souls
Already traumatised by the dreams and bodies of their children going up in flames, the week-long wait for information about the identities of the victims ballooned the agony of parents and guardians to intolerable bounds.
And the weighty sediment of sorrow was palpable. A crowd that had packed up at the ill-fated school as early as 7:30am, braving the morning chilly and swishing wind, burst into wild wails as the bodies of the pupils arrived.
On an ordinary morning, the institution yanked to life early, electrified by the learners who busied themselves with chores and class work. Last week’s fire changed all that, leaving the half-burnt dormitory a standing physical symbol of a tragedy whose cause remains a subject of speculation.
The anguish and pain of the deaths yesterday manifested in an emotional meltdown where beyond relatives and residents, journalists covering the requiem mass broke down too. Many parents and caretakers collapsed, prompting well-wishers to fan them to life with shirts.
An overcast skies added gloom to the doom on earth. It appeared even nature was bitter. As the State minister for Primary Education, Dr Joyce Kaducu, who represented First Lady and Education Minister Janet Museveni, began handing out the remains, the heavens opened with fury, drenching many outside tents.
The wailing pitched, and grief consumed the people in ways that illuminated the painful chasm of the departed.
Eleven die in stampede at Fally Ipupa concert in DR Congo
Too many people had been allowed into Kinshasa's 80,000 capacity Martyrs' stadium on Saturday night, Interior Minister Daniel Aselo Okito told the Actualite.cd news website.
"Eleven people dead... including two police," the minister told reporters at the stadium, sending condolences to relatives of the casualties.
He deplored the frequent "loss of human life and damage to equipment" during events held at the stadium.
The organisers "went beyond 100 percent capacity... they must be punished", the minister said.
"It was a stampede," that caused the deaths, a policeman on the scene told the official Congolese Press Agency ACP.
"The music-lovers suffocated."
Kinshasa police chief General Sylvain Sasongo had earlier told ACP nine people had died, amid reports the venue had been absolutely jammed with people for the local favourite's performance, with one witness saying "even the corridors" of the stadium were overflowing.
ACP, which had reporters in the stadium covering the concert, said police had cordoned off three areas to secure the pitch, the VIP stand and the stage.
"Under the pressure of the crowd, the police could not hold out long," ACP said.
On his Facebook page, Fally Ipupa said he was horrified to learn what had happened.
"Despite all the measures taken for the strict respect of security requirements, unfortunate and dramatic events marred the end of the concert.
"It appears from elements at our disposal that after jostling at the exit and around the stadium compatriots were dragged to their deaths.