How Seoul Halloween crush that killed 154 and injured 149 unfolded in real time

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery A woman carrying a baby cries at a memorial altar to the victims of a deadly stampede in Seoul One survivor said many people fell and toppled one another “like dominos” after they were pushed by others. “Some were bleeding, others were crying out in pain.” open image in gallery The clerk of a shop situated on the site where a stampede happened during Halloween festivities pays respects in the middle of the site One student from France, who asked not to be identified because of the trauma of the event, said he became lodged in a crush of people for about an hour and a half. A father said the news of his young daughter’s death from the crush “came like a bolt from the blue sky”. An official from the missing persons facility said “the families need to get this certificate from the police, then we can release the bodies to the families.” “If the family would want to find out the cause of the death, then they could request an autopsy, but for these bodies, the cause of death seems pretty clear to me,” he added.