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S Korea in national mourning after deadly Halloween crowd crush

Police officers work at the scene of a fatal crowd surge in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, October 30, 2022 [Lee Jin-man/AP]

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family members.

“This is truly tragic,” Yoon said in a statement on Sunday, hours after some 153 people were killed in a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district.

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