Analysts and senior officials blamed heavy crowd control failure in narrow alley of The entertainment district in Seoul that took people’s lives of 156 Celebrated Halloween Sunday.
shortage of Before safety Planning – officials admit it was insufficient – quickly turned to South Korea first Free Halloween of coronavirus restrictions one of the worst disasters in the country, with Depend on the police on pedestrians to help Getting partygoers out of the crowd.
In most cases, of Crushes the crowd, it turns out root cause is deficiency of Eric Kant said who runs at Phase01 Crowd Management based in the Netherlands.
With no single organizer, the file government does not require any of Bars, clubs and restaurants holding events in Itaewon on Saturday to present a safety management plan.
And although the police estimated in advance that the rowdy celebrations would rise to an estimated 100,000 peopleThey deployed only 137 officers – compared to the 6,500 they sent across the city for a fraction of the protest police of the size.
as such public audit of Police crowd escalated internal police chief minister The mayor of Seoul apologized Tuesday for failed to prevent fatal disaster.
South Korea prime minister On Wednesday, he said police should explain their slow response to multiple emergency calls made in The hours before the disaster.
But some experts have suggested more Perhaps security control alone was not enough to avert the tragedy.
“Either they become a part of The crowd themselves, and thus will be their lives in danger Also, or they will be pure observers who don’t even have enough information about what’s going on inside the crowd” safety The expert Milad Hajjani of the University of New South Wales told AFP.
‘Recipe for disaster’
According to Hagani, itaewon’s Halloween celebrations have overshadowed everyone risk Factor squares for Crowds rush.
Typical bustling neighborhood intersect with Narrow alleys that lack “clear potential” escape road”.
Then there were issues about the shortage of event organization itself, including “unrestricted access” of people to me small space”number ticket sales ‘which left There is no accurate estimate of demandNor active watching of crowd density.
“This is the recipe for disaster in and mass gatherings,” Hajjani said, adding that they “remind us.” of Love Parade 2010 in Germany but with “Lots more injuries.”
Meanwhile it’s free-access music Festival, 21 people Died of suffocation and hundreds more He was injured while the crowd struggled for escape slope leading to me event.
Such accidents often caused Via ‘mismanagement by event Or venue organizers” rather than “panic” the crowd, said John Drury, the expert on Crowd Psychology at University of Sussex.
in Itaewon on Saturday, witnesses told AFP early on in Night-goers along one A certain choke point was suffering injuries due to the density of the crowd.
less than two hours Later, people It started falling off on its own over then stomping on each other in tight knot of Bodies that made Everything but impossible move or breathe.
– Predictable and preventable avoid Lots of corpses are crushed in Very tight of a spaceSuch as street events need “months of Planning ‘by experts, Kant in Holland said.
This includes pre-calculating visitor capacity and then calculating and monitoring volume of the crowd and possible Jams either on earth or via CCTV.
“During the eventif maximum Capacity has been reached, as well access till then area should be effective shut offKant added.
It was only about 2:00 a.m., or more from seven hours distance first Emergency callBanned by officials anyone Except for officials and medical personnel from entering Itaewon.
National Police Chief Yoon Hee-kyun admitted that the officers did it failed To answer correctly the numerous calls of citizens warning of dangerwhile the interior minister He promised to investigate exactly what happened in flood.
“I’m 100 percent They are convinced that this tragedy could have been avoided,” Kant said.
“Crowd crushing or crowd disasters were and still are predictable, and therefore preventable.”
Analysts and senior officials blamed heavy crowd control failure in narrow alley of The entertainment district in Seoul that took people’s lives of 156 Celebrated Halloween Sunday.
shortage of Before safety Planning – officials admit it was insufficient – quickly turned to South Korea first Free Halloween of coronavirus restrictions one of the worst disasters in the country, with Depend on the police on pedestrians to help Getting partygoers out of the crowd.
In most cases, of Crushes the crowd, it turns out root cause is deficiency of Eric Kant said who runs at Phase01 Crowd Management based in the Netherlands.
With no single organizer, the file government does not require any of Bars, clubs and restaurants holding events in Itaewon on Saturday to present a safety management plan.
And although the police estimated in advance that the rowdy celebrations would rise to an estimated 100,000 peopleThey deployed only 137 officers – compared to the 6,500 they sent across the city for a fraction of the protest police of the size.
as such public audit of Police crowd escalated internal police chief minister The mayor of Seoul apologized Tuesday for failed to prevent fatal disaster.
South Korea prime minister On Wednesday, he said police should explain their slow response to multiple emergency calls made in The hours before the disaster.
But some experts have suggested more Perhaps security control alone was not enough to avert the tragedy.
“Either they become a part of The crowd themselves, and thus will be their lives in danger Also, or they will be pure observers who don’t even have enough information about what’s going on inside the crowd” safety The expert Milad Hajjani of the University of New South Wales told AFP.
‘Recipe for disaster’
According to Hagani, itaewon’s Halloween celebrations have overshadowed everyone risk Factor squares for Crowds rush.
Typical bustling neighborhood intersect with Narrow alleys that lack “clear potential” escape road”.
Then there were issues about the shortage of event organization itself, including “unrestricted access” of people to me small space”number ticket sales ‘which left There is no accurate estimate of demandNor active watching of crowd density.
“This is the recipe for disaster in and mass gatherings,” Hajjani said, adding that they “remind us.” of Love Parade 2010 in Germany but with “Lots more injuries.”
Meanwhile it’s free-access music Festival, 21 people Died of suffocation and hundreds more He was injured while the crowd struggled for escape slope leading to me event.
Such accidents often caused Via ‘mismanagement by event Or venue organizers” rather than “panic” the crowd, said John Drury, the expert on Crowd Psychology at University of Sussex.
in Itaewon on Saturday, witnesses told AFP early on in Night-goers along one A certain choke point was suffering injuries due to the density of the crowd.
less than two hours Later, people It started falling off on its own over then stomping on each other in tight knot of Bodies that made Everything but impossible move or breathe.
– Predictable and preventable avoid Lots of corpses are crushed in Very tight of a spaceSuch as street events need “months of Planning ‘by experts, Kant in Holland said.
This includes pre-calculating visitor capacity and then calculating and monitoring volume of the crowd and possible Jams either on earth or via CCTV.
“During the eventif maximum Capacity has been reached, as well access till then area should be effective shut offKant added.
It was only about 2:00 a.m., or more from seven hours distance first Emergency callBanned by officials anyone Except for officials and medical personnel from entering Itaewon.
National Police Chief Yoon Hee-kyun admitted that the officers did it failed To answer correctly the numerous calls of citizens warning of dangerwhile the interior minister He promised to investigate exactly what happened in flood.
“I’m 100 percent They are convinced that this tragedy could have been avoided,” Kant said.
“Crowd crushing or crowd disasters were and still are predictable, and therefore preventable.”