Itaewon is one of the most famous entertainment areas in Korea, where there are many fashionable restaurants and bars. It is also deeply loved by many fashionistas and young people, and often holds some parties and large-scale activities. This time, catching up with Halloween, young people liberated their hearts that had been blocked by the epidemic for a long time through this festival. The Korean government also downgraded the notice of wearing masks outdoors to? Recommended? It also aggravated the accident. Itaewon is playing? The first Halloween without a mask in three years? Such a name poured into more than 654.38+10,000 people for carnival that night.
According to the investigation of the accident at the scene, we can find that there was once a food street that was managed by one-way walking. But the management of this street is not strict, so many people drive in both directions. This also caused the beginning of this stampede and caused a very big disaster in the follow-up. Specifically, many people gathered in the steep slopes and narrow lanes of itaewon, and one person suddenly fell, causing all the people behind to fall and squeeze. This area is also connected with the bustling streets and alleys of the subway exit, and people can't escape.
According to survivors' memories, the crowd was crowded and even five or six people fell down together. Even because of the large area of crowding and restlessness, it attracted customers from other places, and everyone took pictures as a souvenir, but I didn't expect this to be an accident. Some people even broke the news that someone tried to escape from a nearby nightclub, but the boss refused to open the door to avoid being ruined.