South Korea parliament approves new probes into crowd crush, marine's death

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SEOUL: South Korea's parliament on Thursday (May 2) passed a Bill to set up a new probe into a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush which left more than 150 mostly young people dead. Tens of thousand

Clerics and families of victims who died in the Halloween crowd crush a year ago, shout slogans during a rally to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadly Halloween crowd crush, at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea on Oct 29, 2023.

This time, the parties reached a compromise by amending the earlier Bill to remove direct investigative power from the nine-member panel looking at the disaster, a task which could last up to 15 months. The ex-police chief denies wrongdoing, telling the court on Monday:"instead of seeking a scapegoat, real preventive measures should be carried out", broadcaster JTBC reported.

The incident became an electoral liability for the ruling People Power Party after Seoul's former defence minister was appointed ambassador to Australia while still under investigation. He later stepped down. "The Presidential Office will respond sternly in the future," Chung Jin-suk, the presidential chief of staff, told reporters.

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