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A court in South Korea has issued arrest warrants for two senior district police officers for failing to promptly respond to October's deadly crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood, which killed 158 people, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
The Seoul Western District Court issued an arrest warrant for Lee Im-jae, former head of the Yongsan Police Station, on charges of professional negligence resulting in death or injury.
He is accused of not taking enough crowd control measures after prior warnings of overcrowding during Halloween celebrations and arriving at the site nearly one hour after casualties occurred.
The court also approved the arrest of Song Byung-joo, former head of the police station's 112 emergency hotline situation room, on the same charge.
(Cover: Policemen stand guard at an alley where a stampede ocurred in Itaewon district in Seoul, South Korea, October 30, 2022. /CFP)
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