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now on bbc news, south korea: the halloween disaster. a warning — this programme contains fashing images. contains flashing images. oh, my god. this was a night of true horror. thousands of young people went out to celebrate halloween in the neon lit alleyways of itaewon, seoul's popular party district. within hours, 156 people had been crushed to death and many others injured in one of the country's worst ever disasters. the night had been planned for weeks. so how did this tragedy happen?

itaewon is one of the most popular neighborhoods in seoul, a multicultural area known for its nightlife and restaurants. but on halloween eve, it was a scene of unimaginable horror, as 100,000 people packed onto the streets to celebrate, a narrow sloped alleyway became so crowded, people couldn't move an inch. by the end of the night, bodies lined the streets. others were carried into ambulances, lifeless. some barefoot, the chilling sign of people who've struggled to escape but not been able to. witnesses described being unable to move.

there's so many people to the point we were being crushed on the pavement. no one really understood what was going on. but there were already several police cars at the scene in front of itaewon station and police standing on top of their police cars, desperately trying to tell people to leave the area as soon as possible. hundreds of ambulances and fire engines arrived on the scene. members of the publicjoined emergency workers desperately performing cpr on those whose hearts had stopped. body after body was wheeled from the scene. on sunday, parents began desperately searching for their missing children who hadn't come home.

this community centre is where so much of the grief has been playing out today because this is where families are coming to report their missing loved ones. and it's here where they find out if they're on the list of people who are known to have died. and while we've been here, we've seen people receive this terrible news. others have turned up and been given no news. and this can be almost as hard to process. i spoke to one mother whose son was working in itaewon last night in one of the clubs. she didn't hearfrom him. i didn't see him. he didn't come home. my only son. the only one i have. the president yoon ssangyong said he was struggling to process his grief after one of south korea's worst ever disasters.

the accounts from the survivors of the tragedy tell a story of chaos and confusion. one man who was in the alleyway during the crush told me he climbed up onto a ledge to stay safe where he watched the horror unfold. someone pushed from the back. then we were here, like it was quite a few times. then i realized something's going to happen. there's no way we can breathe. so everyone lifting up, and that's what they're doing, like taking, like, the last breath and things. so kind of suffocating. the crowds had moved into the narrow alleyway near to the main subway station from three different directions.

the following day, forensic teams scoured the scene, still littered with the remnants from the night before. we don't know exactly what caused the crush yet, but we are starting to get a better picture of how things unfolded. if you see the alleyway just behind me, which is where it happened, it's very narrow. and we know that thousands of people were packed into that space. it's also got quite a steep hill up. and there are reports that people at the top of the hill fell or slipped. and because there was such little room to move, they then pushed people down the alleyway. we know that the area was far too overcrowded. this is such a popular area, itaewon. i was speaking to people in the run up who were telling me how they were planning to avoid this area on saturday because they knew how busy it was going to be. so these crowds were expected. now, all this will, i'm sure, come out in the postmortem. but at the moment, what people are dealing with here

is still trying to identify those who've died because the death toll is absolutely enormous. and there are also hundreds of people who are reported to be injured. the bodies that were on the streets here have now been moved into a gymnasium where people are being asked to go and try and identify them. and this is going to be a hugejob because of the number of victims. the whole country was suddenly thrust into a state of grief. 101 women and 55 men died in the crash and in the days that followed. most were in their 205, though 12 were teenagers, six of them still at school. most were korean, but more than two dozen came from other countries around the world. and today their bodies are being moved from the hospitals into funeral homes. and it's here that their families will now be able to gather for the next three days to mourn. another 149 people were injured,

many of them seriously. the korean government declared a week of national mourning and has promised to pay for the funerals of the dead and the medical care of the injured. but people's grief is morphing into anger, that authorities didn't see this coming and plan for it better. because the event didn't have an official organiser, it wasn't clear who was responsible for keeping people safe. we know now that the council held two meetings ahead of saturday night. the first was with local police businesses and the head

of the subway, and the second was with council staff. now, documents on their website show that they discussed how to prevent the spread of covid, safety at bars and clubs, and rubbish collection. there's no evidence that they talked about how to manage this crowd. on the night itself people at the scene made numerous calls to police hours before the deadly crush, warning of the danger. the head of the police has admitted they failed. translation: we found out that there are lots of emergency calls before - the accident about the seriousness of the place. the calls were about emergencies, telling the danger and urgency of the situation that a large crowd had gathered before the accident occurred. however, we think the police

response on the scene to these emergency calls was inadequate. the transcripts of these calls paint a horrifying picture of how the situation escalated. the first came in at 6:34pm, nearly four hours before the crush. the shopkeeper describes people leaving the subway station and pouring into the alley. "no one is controlling the crowd right now," she told police. "you should let people out first and then let them come in. "people keep coming in, but they can't get out." she then predicts what is to come. "i barely escaped," she says. "people are going to be crushed to death." the next calls began coming injust after 8pm. by then, it was clear the situation had become more serious. the callers described people stumbling, being pushed and injured. "people are falling and things are getting out of control

"because the road here is blocked at a three way intersection," said the third caller. by the end of the hour at 8:53, the fourth caller described a harrowing situation. "many people are being crushed. it's chaos." the officer assured the caller they would send police to the scene. police records show they didn't. of the 11 phone calls made, police mobilised officers for four of them. they didn't send anyone after 9:07pm. the final call came at 11 minutes past 10. minutes later, the deadly crush began. despite a crowd of 100,000 people, 137 police officers were on the scene. their main tasks were to monitor drug use, sexual assault and crime, not to control the crowd. south korea's president has ordered

a thorough investigation into what caused the deadly crush and what went so horribly wrong. at a press conference, the prime minister said it would look more into how the police responded and how the crowd was managed. what we are looking into is that that communication line, which should respond in a proper way, whether that really worked in a proper way. that's what we are looking into. and people will be held responsible. the discarded clothes of the dead

and injured are still in the sports hall where their bodies were first brought designer handbags, scuffed trainers and headphones still in their cases. they are a visual reminder how young these people were, how many years of life this country has lost. as people struggle to make sense of the tragedy, they want answers. a reckoning is coming. the pain this has inflicted on south korea may never fully disappear. sunday will be a story of sunshine and showers for the vast majority but more sunshine around compared to saturday but the main exception will be the channel islands, the south—east of england and east anglia where we will have heavy and persistent rain and there could be flooding an already saturated ground and it will only be replaced by further showers later in the day. the showers will be trundling eastwards but increasing amounts of

sunshine between the showers into the afternoon and not a bad afternoon in central and western scotland in particular. 10—14 the temperatures, and a strengthening wind especially in the south—west which could be up to gale force as we finish today. the winds strengthen over other western areas into sunday night and with low pressure pushing closer and closer towards the north of scotland, showers will continue to feed in across many areas, but the one thing, winds coming from the south—westerly direction means it won't be a chilly start to the new week but monday will certainly be a fairly cloudy day with further outbreaks of rain.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. with us midterm electionsjust days away — the big hitters come to pennsylvania. biden, obama — and trump all push for victory in a critical contest. d for victory in a critical contest. democracy itself is the d democracy itself is on the ballot. the stakes are high. iran admits supplying "a limited number" of drones to russia, but ukraine says it has yet to come clean on the full extent of its involvement in the conflict. british police say extreme right—wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a migrant processing centre in the south east of england. thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims — many are calling for the president to resign.