Lost shoes await owners at Seoul gym
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Days after more than 150
Halloween revelers died in South Korea’s deadliest crowd
surge, a quiet but wrenching reminder of the disaster remained
Tuesday: Hundreds of abandoned shoes have been
laid out in neat rows in a badminton court in the capital,
Seoul.
Police have assembled the crumpled tennis shoes, loafers
and Chuck Taylors — part of 1.5 tons of personal objects left
by victims and survivors of the tragedy — in hopes that the
owners, or their friends and family, will retrieve them.
The deadly crush in the nearby nightlife district Itaewon
happened after tens of thousands gathered for Halloween celebrations
Saturday evening.