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South Korea response to Halloween crowd crush ‘inadequate’

National Police Agency Commissioner Yoon Hee-geun admitted police failings in its handling of the Halloween festivities in Itaewon [Heo Ran/ Reuters]

South Korean police have said crowd control measures at the scene of a deadly Halloween crush in the capital, Seoul, were “inadequate”, promising tough new safety measures to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

National Police Commissioner General Yoon Hee-keun told reporters on Tuesday that he felt “limitless responsibility about public safety over this accident” that killed at least 156 people.

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