Dozens of mostly young people have been left dead in a crowd crush at Halloween festivities in South Korea's capital city of Seoul - with more than 1,700 emergency workers deployed to the scene.
Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department, said the number of deaths could rise and that an unspecified number of the injured were in critical condition - with at least 50 people being treated for cardiac arrest.
He added that most of the dead and injured are women in their 20s and many of them were killed near a nightclub. It is not clear what prompted the crowd surge, although some local media reports said a large number of people had rushed to the area after hearing an unidentified celebrity had been there.One witness, in his 20s, told Yonhap news agency:"As people in the front fell over, those in the back were crushed."
Other footage showed chaotic scenes of fire officials and citizens treating dozens of people who appeared to be unconscious.
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