South Korea The casualties occurred Saturday night in the Itaewon leisure district, when a large crowd pushed forward in the area's narrow alleys. The incident was first reported around 10:20 p.m ...

About 20,000 officers in mobile police squads will be on standby for expected protests. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Despite anticipating a weekend crowd of more than 100,000, Seoul police had assigned just 137 officers to Itaewon on the day of the crush. National police chief Yoon Hee Keun said there were many ...

In the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, many tourists joined in the festivities, smearing each other with red, green, blue, and ...

SEOUL--South Korean police investigated on Monday what caused a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people including 26 foreigners during Halloween festivities in Seoul in the country’s ...

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SEOUL--A South Korean court found the former police chief of the country’s capital and two other officers not guilty over a botched response to a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 ...

And it has happened again, during Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital Seoul, where a crowd pushed forward, the narrow street they were on acting as a vice, leaving more than 140 ...