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Weekend: South Korea: Seoul Halloween crush kills 151, injures 82

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South Korea: Seoul Halloween crush kills 151, injures 82

30/10/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, South Korea: Seoul Halloween crush kills 151, injures 82

Most of the dead were teenagers or in their 20s.

South Korea is in mourning following the deaths of more than 150 people who'd been celebrating Halloween. President Yoon has promised a thorough investigation of the crush in a narrow alley in the capital, Seoul.

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And we speak to a woman who became a mayor in Afghanistan in her early twenties. She fled after the Taliban took over. But she maintains some optimism for the future of her country.

Today, we're joined - for the rest of the programme - by Azadeh Moaveni, an Iranian-American writer and director of the Gender and Conflict Project at the International Crisis Group think-tank and by Simon Lancaster, a British speechwriter and author.


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