buenos dias. good morning, welcome to your new day. it is sunday, october 30, halloween eve. i m boris sanchez. halloween eve. good to be with you. i m ambra walker. thank you for starting your among morning with us. we start in asia. south korea declaring a national day of mourning after a deadly crowd surge killed 153 people who were out celebrating halloween in the capital of seoul. we have to warn you, some of the images we re going to share are graphic. authorities are still investigating exactly what caused this crowd crush. but emergency officials first began receiving reports of people buried in crowds on saturday evening. there were thousands of people out that night in an area of the city with very narrow streets as you can say. they re packed in alleys. and witnesses say people were trapped and panicked because they couldn t breathe with dozens of people being administered cpr on the sidewalks. i turned around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way.
woman s parents, her family, her friends, it s really heart breaking. 97 of those who were killed are women. 56 men. out of the 153 deaths. they come from not just here in south korea, the majority from south korea, but really all over the world. the list updated here, norway, sri lanka, thailand, iran. all of these people, many of them in their 20s and thirties out here having a great time. and they never came home.30s ou here having a great time. and they never came home. halloween horror and heart break in seoul s popular night life district, nightmare scenes. the narrow alleys lined with lifeless bodies, many in costume. frantic first responders trying to save them. this is a row of stretchers that we initially thought were waiting for potential survivors of this incident at halloween party where thousands of people were packed into a relate tyly tight area.