Seoul crowd crush leaves South Koreans heartbroken as death toll rises to 154

South Korea’s Prime Minister is promising the government will “thoroughly investigate” after a horrifying Halloween stampede in Seoul killed at least 154 people.

Han Duck-soo assured the government will “do its best to make necessary improvements” to prevent another disaster happening again.

He and Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon paid tribute at memorial altar for the victims in front of City Hall in the country’s capital.

Saturday’s deadly crowd surge happened at a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors recalling a “hell-like” chaos of people falling on each other “like dominoes.”