'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…
On the fourth anniversary of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, families of foreign victims gathered in Seoul to watch footage of their loved ones' final moments. Damira Sherniyazova, who traveled from Kazakhstan, described the day as difficult as she viewed her sister Madina's last moments. Madina was one of the 26 foreign nationals killed in the tragedy that claimed 159 lives.
In total, 35 members of 18 families across 10 countries attended the event, invited by the government to commemorate the anniversary. The special investigation commission presented the families with footage, drawn from approximately 1,000 videos, including CCTV and firefighters' body cameras, showing each victim's movements leading up to the disaster, their final moments, and rescue attempts.
The footage revealed a shortage of police officers on the scene and a rescue response that arrived too late.
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