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S Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol apologises over deadly Halloween crush

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, right, and his wife Kim Keon-hee attend a Buddhist ceremony for the Halloween crowd crush victims in Seoul [File: Yonhap via Reuters]

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has apologised for the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul, promising to hold to account officials who failed to respond effectively to the tragedy.

Yoon offered the apology on Monday during a meeting to review safety rules as the country mourns the 156 crush victims, most of whom were women and young people in their twenties and thirties.

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