Halloween

Claudia Flores Iriate and Sean McCallum were strangers who met at a hostel in Lima in 2008. It was Claudia's first day working there and Sean's first ...

Claudia has a book of all her mother's handwritten Peruvian recipes, and she's enjoying teaching them to her kids, who are now eleven and eight and love experimenting in the kitchen. Claudia could have taken a different job, or not worked that night, or not gone to the Halloween party. Over the next several months, Claudia and Sean kept in touch as best they could. She's loved building a life with Sean and their children in Toronto. Sean and Claudia decided to stay in. Again, Sean had written out the words in Spanish, and read them aloud. "I remember sitting at the bar, and it was an out-of-body experience," says Sean. I asked Claudia her name a couple of times, and I could not hear what she said." The next morning, Sean and Claudia sat around the hostel bar, this time drinking fresh juice rather than Jäger. Sean insists Claudia was staring at him too. "I don't even know if I was aware there was going to be a Halloween party that night," says Sean. Claudia was 22, just graduated from college and this was her first job.

As the police launch an investigation, the country is mourning the victims of Saturday night's deadly stampede in Itaewon. Eyewitnesses are lamenting the ...

But according to Interior Ministry data from 2020, the number of disasters such as fires, chemical leaks and ship or train accidents has continued to grow — after a brief decline in 2015. The National Police Agency on Monday [said](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.korea.kr/news/policyBriefingView.do?newsId=156533759__;!!Iwwt!Q-Kw2b0FxfXbQa6Kl_dHXjRfPvlQ46nKo5Bq7eF2bQf9xAgaJHjN8s1xiJt-2lHnnSeIZm-0HfrN6oM$) a total of 137 police officers were dispatched to the district on Saturday. They are the parents who lost their children in the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster. As a young woman living in a nearby neighborhood, she finds it "unbelievable and surreal" that a disaster of such magnitude happened in the heart of the city. In videos filmed earlier that evening and posted on social media, the sloping 10-foot-wide alley is seen packed with people trying to move in both directions. He said the police do not have a manual for large gatherings that take place with no clear organizer. [Many](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/many__;!!Iwwt!Q-Kw2b0FxfXbQa6Kl_dHXjRfPvlQ46nKo5Bq7eF2bQf9xAgaJHjN8s1xiJt-2lHnnSeIZm-0vv76OUk$) [eyewitnesses](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/30/it-was-chaos-how-my-halloween-night-out-in-itaewon-went-from-fun-to-horror__;!!Iwwt!Q-Kw2b0FxfXbQa6Kl_dHXjRfPvlQ46nKo5Bq7eF2bQf9xAgaJHjN8s1xiJt-2lHnnSeIZm-0qyfAHRw$) lamented lack of crowd control measures. The police launched a 475-strong investigation team and scoured the scene with forensics officers on Monday. Over 130,000 passengers used the Itaewon subway station on Saturday, according to Seoul Metro Corporation. The multicultural neighborhood of Itaewon has attracted hundreds of thousands of revelers looking for Halloween festivities each year. President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday declared a week-long national mourning period, the second in the country's history. The victims were mostly young adults, and among the dead are 26 foreigners from 14 countries.

Proper crowd and traffic control by South Korean authorities could have prevented or reduced the surge of Halloween...

"As there was no central authority, each government arm just did what they usually do - the fire department prepared for fires and the police prepared for crime. On Saturday when the tragedy occurred, roughly 100,000 people were estimated to be in Itaewon, an area known for its hills and narrow alleys. There was, however, no mention of crowd control.

Ms Rached's family have paid tribute to their "gorgeous angel" who always made "others feel important"; She is the only confirmed Australian to have died in the ...

Among the injured is an Australian in intensive care and a dual citizen in a stable condition, the ABC was told. - She is the only confirmed Australian to have died in the crowd crush The family of the Australian woman killed in a deadly crowd crush while celebrating Halloween in downtown Seoul has paid tribute to "our life of the party".

Following two years of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, airports and airlines plan to use Halloween 2022 as an excuse to celebrate air travel.

Ticket counters may have the odd skeleton or two hanging around, but if you want to get into the spirit of Halloween before your flight, head to an airport bar. The movies Delta has added are the following: American Airlines says it is "creeping it real" with aviation-themed pumpkin stencils. [Southwest](http://simpleflying.com/tag/southwest-airlines/) offered a "monster sale" on flights to select destinations in the United States. The flights must be purchased up to and including Monday, October 31, and are good for travel until March 31, 2023. Focused around autumn and All Saints' Day on November 1, Halloween is a celebration of all things scary.

South Korean investigators are combing footage from dozens of state and private closed-circuit TV cameras as well as...

The crush came as Itaewon was just starting to thrive again after more than two years of COVID-19 restrictions. The identification of the victims was nearly complete and funeral preparations can move ahead, Han said. Citizens from at least two dozen countries were among the dead including one Australian. What more should we say? As the country began a week of mourning, the death toll climbed to 154. One agent with the National Forensic Service team, in white overalls and a black ribbon of mourning pinned to his chest, operated a Leica 3D scanner, he said, "to capture the scene."