@itsjillianrowe: 159 people went out to celebrate Halloween in Seoul, South Korea, in 2022 and never came home. There was no fire. No explosion. No collapsing building. They were standing in a crowded street. And the pressure from the people surrounding them became so enormous that they physically couldn’t breathe. This is called compressive asphyxia, and it’s one of the most terrifying things that can happen in a crowd. You don’t have to fall. You don’t have to be trampled. You can suffocate while standing upright. But what makes the Itaewon Halloween disaster even more devastating is that people had been calling authorities for hours, warning that someone was going to get killed. Eleven emergency calls. Repeated warnings. And catastrophic failures in the response. Today, on the final day of 31 Days of Nope, we’re examining how this tragedy unfolded, why crowd crushes are so deadly, and the failures that cost 159 people their lives. This isn’t a story about people making bad decisions by going out to celebrate Halloween. It’s a story about the importance of crowd safety and what can happen when warning signs go unaddressed. Remembering the 159 lives lost on October 29, 2022. 🖤 #31DaysOfNope #ItaewonDisaster #CrowdCrush #HalloweenTragedy #CrowdSafety

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Saturday 31 October 2026 21:06:18 GMT