Families search for missing loved ones in Seoul Halloween stampede

Families and friends of the people still missing from the Halloween stampede in South Korea awaited news of their loved ones on Sunday (October 30) after at least 151 were killed in the tragedy.

At a community centre in Seoul, anxious and saddened individuals arrived to find out more information of those who were uncontactable.

Another 82 people were injured, and most of the victims were teenagers and people in their 20s. Nineteen foreigners from China, Iran, Uzbekistan and Norway were also killed in the stampede.

Nathan Taverniti, an Australian national living in Seoul, was in Itaewon with three other friends at the time of incident. There were ‘waves of people’ clogging the narrow alley, he said, as the emergency services took a while to arrive.

One of his friends who was in Seoul for a visit died in the stampede, and two remained in hospital.