Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed deep anguish over the lack of lives throughout a stampede at a Halloween occasion in South Korea’s Seoul on Saturday evening. A tweet posted by the Indian embassy in South Korea stated, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his letter to Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has expressed deep anguish on the tragic lack of lives at yesterday’s stampede incident in Seoul.” The embassy added that PM Modi additionally conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the chums and households who misplaced their family members.
Earlier than the Prime Minister, overseas minister S Jaishankar on Sunday condoled the lack of lives on the Halloween stampede in Seoul. “Our condolences to the households of those that misplaced their expensive ones. We stand in solidarity with the Republic of Korea throughout this tough time,” Jaishankar tweeted on Sunday.
A complete of 153 folks have been killed and 133 have been injured within the stampede on the Itaewon space in Seoul thus far.
On Saturday evening, an estimated 100,000 folks had gathered in Itaewon for the nation’s greatest outside Halloween festivities for the reason that onset of the Covid pandemic. The stampede occurred as the gang surged right into a slender alley, trapping and crushing a mass of individuals. A lot of the contributors within the Halloween occasion have been of their teenagers or twenties.
South Korea’s overseas minister stated on Sunday that the deceased included at the least 26 overseas nationals from 14 nations. On Monday, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo promised a radical investigation into the stampede. Han added that his authorities would make vital modifications to stop such an accident from occurring once more, information company Reuters reported.