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SEOUL: Dozens of people were injured in a stampede in Seoul as a huge crowd poured into a central district of the South Korean capital for Halloween festivities late on Saturday, according to a news agency.

South Korean officials said around 50 people were in cardiac arrest and a number feared dead after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital Seoul

At least 149 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT At least 153 people were killed as a huge crowd poured into a central district of the South Korean capital for Halloween festivities late on Saturday

South Korean authorities say many went into cardiac arrest

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, the South's military said, the latest in a blitz of launches that Washington and Seoul have warned could culminate in another nuclear test.

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime.”

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, the South's military said, the latest in a blitz of launches that Washington and Seoul have warned could culminate in Kim Jong Un conducting another nuclear test. The launch comes as South Korea and the US conclude 12 days of amphibious…

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, as it continues a barrage of launches in opposition to U.S. and South Korean military drills.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Friday Seoul has not provided any lethal weapons to Ukraine, after Russian President Vladimir Putin said such a decision would destroy their bilateral relations.

Seoul (AFP) - The once-disgraced heir to the sprawling Samsung empire was on Thursday named top executive of its most important business, two months after South Korea's president pardoned him for embezzlement and corruption convictions.