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The Associated Press

After the tragic crush, hundreds of lost shoes await their owners at a Seoul gym

Shoes are seen at a temporary lost and found center in Seoul on Tuesday. They were among a huge collection of items found following Saturday night's deadly crowd surge. (Lee Jin-man/AP)

SEOUL, South Korea — Days after more than 150 Halloween revelers died in South Korea's deadliest crowd surge, a quiet but wrenching reminder of the disaster remained Tuesday: Hundreds of abandoned shoes have been laid out in neat rows in a badminton court in the capital, Seoul.

Police have assembled the crumpled tennis shoes, loafers and Chuck Taylors — part of 1.5 tons of personal objects left by victims and survivors of the tragedy — in hopes that the owners, or their friends and family, will retrieve them.

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