Officers are analysing footage taken by security cameras in the area at the time of the crush and related video clips posted on social media.
They were also interviewing witnesses to find exactly when and where the crowd surge started and how it developed, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.A team of police officers and government forensic experts were to conduct a joint investigation, according to local media reports.
But some business owners in Itaewon say an even larger number of people gathered there in pre-pandemic Halloween weekend festivities. Some observers say the scope of the police investigation would include an apparent lack of safety steps, as well as looking into witness accounts of the stampede being caused by some people intentionally pushing others and making them fall. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency didn’t immediately publicise the details of its probe.
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