The things they lost: personal items catalogue Seoul crowd crush horror

Broken glasses. A grubby stuffed toy. Blood-stained running shoes.

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Personal belongings, including a US (top) and South Korean passport retrieved by police from the scene of a fatal Halloween crowd surge that killed more than 150 people in the Itaewon district are displayed at a gymnasium for relatives of victims to collect, in Seoul on November 1, 2022. - At least 156 mostly young people were killed, and scores more injured, in a deadly crowd surge late October 29 at the first post-pandemic Halloween party in Seoul's popular Itaewon nightlife district. -- Photo: Anthony Wallace / AFP

2022-11-01 18:12:40

Broken glasses. A grubby stuffed toy. Blood-stained running shoes.

The broken and twisted detritus of personal possessions collected from the scene of Seoul's deadly Halloween crowd surge are a poignant catalogue of young lives lost.

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