Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed deep suffering over the lack of lives at some point of a stampede at a Halloween occasion in South Korea’s Seoul on Saturday night. A tweet published through the Indian embassy in South Korea stated, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his letter to Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has expressed deep suffering on the tragic lack of lives at yesterday’s stampede incident in Seoul.” The embassy introduced that PM Modi additionally conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the pals and households who misplaced their cherished ones.
Before 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 people who misplaced their expensive ones. We stand in team spirit with the Republic of Korea at some point of this tough time,” Jaishankar tweeted on Sunday.
A overall of 153 humans had been killed and 133 had been injured withinside the stampede on the Itaewon place in Seoul so far.
On Saturday night, an envisioned 100,000 humans had accrued in Itaewon for the country’s largest out of doors Halloween festivities for the reason that onset of the Covid pandemic. The stampede passed off because the crowd surged right into a slender alley, trapping and crushing a mass of humans. Most of the individuals withinside the Halloween occasion have been of their teenagers or twenties.
South Korea’s overseas minister stated on Sunday that the deceased protected at the least 26 overseas nationals from 14 countries. On Monday, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo promised a radical research into the stampede. Han introduced that his authorities could make essential modifications to save you such an coincidence from going on again, information organisation Reuters reported.