A Brazilian woman said she survived the tragedy with a crushed crowd in Seoul during the Halloween celebrations minutes before the event. She explained that she had decided to leave the scene because she was afraid of overcrowding. At least 153 people were killed and 150 injured.
Rebecca Câmara, 25, told the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo that she advised her friends to change the sidewalks in the Itaewon neighborhood, which prevented women from being stranded in the narrow street where hundreds of people were trampled underfoot and squeezed. each other. others.
“I asked us to stay on the opposite sidewalk because it was too crowded and we couldn’t go out, we couldn’t walk straight,” the Brazilian, who modeled in South Korea, told the São Paulo newspaper.
“If we had crossed as the girls wanted, we would have been in the crowd and God knows what could have happened,” he said. After leaving the crowd, he decided to walk with his friends. wrong way. to the scene of the tragedy.
Soon they began to observe large numbers of ambulances, police cars and fire trucks.
Rebecca says the Halloween party in Koreatown is very popular and attracts crowds, often marching in the same direction, as seen Saturday (29), when an unknown riot started the tragedy.
Emphasizing that celebration participants tend to gather in narrow streets, the model says, “People are pushed around. It’s like a carnival block.”
The celebration marked the first street Halloween in South Korea since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020. According to local media, most of the victims of the riot are teenagers and adults in their 20s.
source: Noticias
