SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the establishing of a brand new investigation workforce, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the lethal Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, principally younger individuals, in 2022, his spokesperson stated on Thursday (Jul 17).
Lee’s transfer to launch a brand new probe got here as he met the bereaved households of victims from current main disasters, together with the Halloween crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district, his spokesperson Kang Yu-jung instructed a briefing.
Lee, who took workplace in June, has promised to make the nation safer and to forestall any repeat of the disasters lately which have usually been blamed on the insufficient response by authorities.
The president stated the brand new investigation workforce would work alongside a particular fee that was launched in September final yr to look into the case, in response to the spokesperson.
