About 10 pct of 2022 crowd crush deaths possibly caused by reasons besides suffocation: committee

About 10 percent of the more than 100 people killed in the 2022 deadly crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon district may have died from causes other than suffocation, a special investigation committee said Tuesday. The analysis, released by the committee investigating the 2022 crowd crush, suggests that more lives could have been saved had more active rescue efforts been made immediately after the accident. The accident dates back to Oct. 29, 2022, when 159 people were crushed to death during Hallowee

By The Korea Herald