‘It was almost post-apocalyptic’: A reckoning awaits Seoul’s crowd tragedy

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Michelle Lee, Kelly Kasulis Cho, Stephanie McCrummen, Annabelle Timsit, Praveena Somasundaram-Yesterday 3:28 PM

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SEOUL — At first, the young woman felt herself being squeezed by the packed crowd as it slowly pushed down a narrow alleyway in the South Korean capital, where she had been enjoying Halloween festivities Saturday night.

‘It was almost post-apocalyptic’: A reckoning awaits Seoul’s crowd tragedy©Albert Retief/AFP/Getty Images

Then the squeezing became more like crushing, and soon bodies were pressing against her so tightly that her feet were no longer touching the ground. What the 23-year old remembers next is being in a pile of people, her lungs flattened, her legs going numb as she took shallow breaths. She remembers people screaming for help, then falling silent as bodies around her grew limp.

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