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The pre-Christmas shopping rush with crowds and decorations along Orchard Road, taken on 23 Dec 2021.
The Business Times
Woo Jun Jie
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It was the nightmare every parent and night-time reveller dreaded: the crowd crush in which more than 150 people died while celebrating Halloween in Itaewon,
An estimated 100,000 had converged on the area on a Saturday night to party. Police later admitted that flaws in crowd control contributed to the deadly surge. Two-thirds of the victims were in their 20s.
