More than 140 dead in tragic Seoul Halloween stampede | SBS News

Nearly 150 people, some in masquerade costumes, were killed and some 150 more were injured Saturday in a horrific stampede in central Seoul when a large crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into a narrow street, officials said.

Witnesses described scrambling to get out of the suffocating crowd, people piling on top of one another, and paramedics, overwhelmed by the number of victims, asking passersby to administer first aid.

"There were so many people just being pushed around and I got caught in the crowd and I couldn't get out at first too," 30-year-old Jeon Ga-eul told AFP. "I felt like an accident was bound to happen."