Seoul, Sept 30, 2024 (AFP) - Local police chief jailed for 3 years over deadly S. Korea crowd crush: Yonhap

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2024-09-30

A South Korean court on Monday jailed the former district police chief overseeing Seoul's Itaewon neighbourhood to three years jail for failing to prevent a Halloween crowd crush that killed more than 150 people. "It was foreseeable that there would be a large crowd of people in the sloped alley of Itaewon that would lead to serious danger to life and physical safety on the Halloween weekend in 2022," the Seoul Western District Court said in the......

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