'44 minutes before rescuers reached her': Families view footage of foreign Itaewon victims' last moments
Families of foreign victims of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush watched second-by-second footage of their loved ones’ final moments and said the recordings showed too few police officers at the scene and a rescue response that came too late. “Yesterday was a difficult day for me. I watched my sister’s final moments, where she walked and how she died,” Damira Sherniyazova, who traveled from…
Families of 26 foreign nationals who lost their lives in the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush watched second-by-second footage of their loved ones' final moments, expressing their disappointment with the insufficient number of police officers present and the delayed rescue response. Damira Sherniyazova, whose sister Madina was among the victims, traveled from Kazakhstan to attend a press conference in Seoul.
Madina walked and then died in the narrow Seoul alley four years ago, when the tragedy claimed 159 lives in total. The investigation commission, comprised of 35 representatives from 18 families across 10 countries, invited families to attend meetings and view the footage. The commission compiled the footage from about 1,000 videos they collected, incorporating CCTV recordings and firefighters' body camera footage.
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