<Anchor> The
accident occurred when a large number of people gathered at once on a narrow slope.
Although he was careful in his expression, he fell and piled up like dominoes, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not save the person below him.
By the way, this is reporter Jeong Hye-jin.
<Reporter> Last
night (29th), in the narrow alley next to the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon, you can only see people's heads.
The tight-knit people can't come and go, and sometimes climb walls desperately to survive.
The accident occurred when hundreds of people gathered at once into an alley next to the hotel, which was narrow and sloping down.
Screams erupted from among the people stacked up, and rescuers tried their best to get someone out of the bottom, but they didn't budge.
It seems that this situation continued for more than 30 minutes after the initial report that about 10 people were laid down until the rescue authorities switched to the emergency response stage.
[Lee Chang-gyu / Rescuer: People are all gathered in a narrow alley, so I had to get out, but it was all tangled up and crushed.
They're all pushing each other...
.]
At the time of the accident, there was also a testimonial that the road was very slippery with liquids such as alcohol on the floor of the alley.
[Vendor: (The slope) is always muddy, (like alcohol) water and things like that, so it's slippery because all the cigarette butts are thrown away.]
The roads around them resembled an emergency room with people who were barely rescued from the abyss.
Paramedics began desperately performing CPR, and many citizens also contributed their hands at the scene.
[Witness: Firefighters go around and tell the general public, 'This is how you do CPR.']
However, there were too many rescuers to perform CPR within the maximum 5 minutes, the golden time to save a patient from cardiac arrest, so the unfortunate sacrifices continued. .
(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)