South Korea Investigates Delayed Police Response to Deadly Seoul Stampede
As part of the investigation the South Korean National Police Agency will review the whereabouts of two police officers who arrived late to the scene when a stampede took over 150 lives during Halloween celebrations.
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South Korea’s National Police Agency has opened an investigation into the delayed and error-filled police response to Halloween celebrations in Seoul that led to deadly “crowd crush” and claimed over 150 lives last weekend, La Prensa Latina reports. Two officers, the police chief of the district where the tragedy occurred, Lee Im-jae, and the officer meant to monitor the situation at the Metropolitan Police Agency of Seoul, Ryu Mi-jin, were suspended following the incident.
The pair’s whereabouts were unknown during the events, but neither could be reached as the stampede started. Lee did not report to the scene until over an hour after initial attempts to contact him to be reached. The South Korean police are under fire for their response to the incident in which the central government admitted to glaring errors in preventing tragedies at large events.
