{"id":230713,"date":"2022-10-30T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=230713"},"modified":"2022-10-30T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:52:17","slug":"151-dead-150-injured-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/151-dead-150-injured-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"151 dead, 150 injured in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 150 others in South Korea&#8217;s worst disaster in years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the stampede in the capital&#8217;s leisure district of Itaewon on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those killed or injured were mostly teens and people in their 20s, according to the chief of Seoul&#8217;s Yongsan fire department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dead included 19 foreigners, he said, whose nationalities weren&#8217;t immediately released. The death toll could rise further as 19 of those injured were in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident occurred as more than a lakh people participated in the celebrations in a narrow lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 150 others in South Korea&#8217;s worst disaster in years. Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the stampede in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[12154,53925,12501],"class_list":["post-230713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","tag-halloween","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/soel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}