Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Harpeau]

South Korean concert stampede kills 11


Oct 4, 2005

Thousands of people stampeded at a holiday music concert in South Korea on Monday, killing 11 and injuring 76 others, rescue officials said.

More than 5,000 surged to enter one of the gates at a stadium in the southern city of Sangju, and those waiting at the front fell and were crushed, the organiser of the concert, the broadcaster MBC, said in a news report.

All 11 killed were elderly women or children, MBC and rescue officials said.

"We have people who injured their heads or chests or have broken bones," a nurse at Sangju Red Cross Hospital said by telephone. "We have some old women here who were killed."

Seventy-six people were injured in the accident, the head of Sangju's fire and rescue emergency centre, Lee Tae-hyung, told YTN television. He said he did not think the death toll would rise much more.

A witness said the crowd had been waiting for two hours and was becoming visibly impatient when one of the gates opened.

"When the gate opened, the crowd surged with a roar," witness Shin Dong-won told YTN television.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/616241

[EFLtrainer]

[igotthisguitar]

Strange really. 11 people were killed at this public event & this is the first i've even heard of this.

[Harpeau]

[Bulsajo]

Well, that's interesting because there were two threads on this incident which were started on October 4th, one here and one in the general discussion forum, and that propbably explains the low participation in this thread.