Seoul police chief charged over deadly Halloween crush
SEOUL: Seoul's chief of police has been charged with professional negligence over the deadly 2022 Halloween crush that killed nearly 160 people, prosecutors in the South Korean capital said.
Kim Kwang in asian news
For Families of Itaewon Crowd Crush Victims, Verdicts Are a Bittersweet Win
Bereaved relatives of the victims of a deadly 2022 crowd crush in South Korea expressed mixed emotions this week after three former police officers were convicted of destroying evidence connected to the episode, in which nearly 160 people died in Seoul. Dissatisfaction over the slow pace of the inquiry and the perceived leniency of the sentences was mingled with relief that someone, at last, had been held to account.
3 former police officers sentenced for destroying Halloween crowd crush evidence
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Seoul police chief indicted for negligence over Itaewon Halloween crush
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South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to examine human rights violations linked to past military governments, including the widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Police Chief Is Indicted Over South Korea’s Deadly Crowd Crush
Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, charging him with contributing through negligence to the Halloween crowd crush in Seoul in 2022 that killed nearly 160 people, officials said.
South Korea: Police chief charged over Seoul Halloween crush
Seoul's chief of police has been charged with negligence more than a year after a Halloween crush left 159 young people dead in South Korea.