South Korea to hold police accountable for crowd crush failures: PM

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  Seoul, South Korea South Korea’s prime minister said Wednesday that police must explain failures to respond to multiple emergency calls ahead of a deadly Halloween crowd surge, as investigators raided police stations. At least 156 mostly young people were killed, and scores more injured, in a crush late Saturday at the first post-pandemic Halloween party in Seoul’s popular Itaewon nightlife district. Transcripts of emergency calls obtained by AFP, many made hours […]