S. Korea parliament approves new probes into crowd crush, marine's death
The Peninsula
Seoul: South Korea s parliament on Thursday passed a bill to set up a new probe into a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush which left more than 150 most...
Seoul: South Korea's parliament on Thursday passed a bill to set up a new probe into a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush which left more than 150 mostly young people dead.
Tens of thousands of mainly young people had gathered on October 29, 2022, to enjoy the first post-pandemic holiday celebrations in Seoul's popular Itaewon nightlife district.
But the night turned deadly when revellers poured into a narrow, sloping alleyway between bars and clubs, with a lack of effective crowd control measures leading to a crowd crush in which 158 people died, and hundreds were injured.
The parliament, which is controlled by the opposition who secured a landslide victory in April legislative elections, passed the bill in a bipartisan manner with 256 votes in favour, three abstentions, and no opposing votes.
President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed a similar bill that had been passed without the support of his party in January.
