The Latest Breaking News from Seoul

South Korean investigators combed footage on Monday from more than 50 state and private closed-circuit TV cameras as well as from social media looking for answers to how a surge in Halloween party-goers trapped in narrow alleys killed so many.

A 23-year-old Australian visiting South Korea has spoken about the Seoul crowd crush that left an Australian and 152 others dead.

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Seoul's favourite club district is made up of tiny alleyways that wind around a steep hill. When about 100,000 people flocked there for Halloween, disaster struck.

Hours after the devastating crowd surge in the South Korean capital of Seoul, fire chief Choi Seong-beom was seen shaking as he said the victims were mostly aged in their teens and 20s

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s handling of a deadly crowd surge that killed more than 150 people will give him a chance to prove to critics he can lead, or hand his opponents more fodder to paint his administration as incompetent.

The death toll has now topped 150 with scores more injured after the crowd surge in Itaewon, Seoul

Ken Fallas watched a dozen or more unconscious partygoers being carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed like movie characters

South Korean officials say at least 26 foreign nationals were among the more than 150 people killed in the incident in Seoul's Itaewon district. Many were young adults celebrating Halloween.

Residents gathered in Itaewon try to make sense of Saturday evening’s disaster, in which at least 153 people died

The tragic event in Seoul is being described as a crowd crush or surge, which is different from a stampede.