Investigators raid Seoul police over deadly crowd surge

By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Police Agency has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city’s Yongsan district office as it investigates whether official ineptitude contributed to a deadly crowd surge that killed 156 people in the neighborhood of Itaewon. The raids came a day after the national agency acknowledged that Seoul police failed to act for hours despite receiving at least 11 emergency calls from pedestrians warning about a swelling crowd getting out of control before the crush in an alley near Hamilton Hotel.