Shin Su-Bin was not answering her cellphone.
It was round 10 p.m. Saturday and her father had simply seen reviews of a lethal crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon nightlife district, the place his solely daughter was out celebrating Halloween with a pal. The cellphone rang for hours.
“At round 5 a.m. this morning, a police officer answered Su-Bin’s cellphone,” her cousin, Kim Younger-hoon, mentioned in an interview on Sunday. “The officer instructed Su-Bin’s father that the cellphone left on the bottom was ringing.”
By then officers had introduced that greater than 100 folks had died within the crush and dozens extra had been injured. The loss of life toll would improve to greater than 150 by Sunday afternoon.
The police officer who picked up Ms. Shin’s cellphone instructed her dad and mom to move to a close-by neighborhood middle for extra info. At noon, there have been nonetheless no solutions.
“No, no information but that she is on the checklist of the deceased,” Mr. Kim mentioned on the time. “I feel the checklist of the injured will probably be introduced after the checklist of the deceased. I hope Su-Bin is on the checklist of the injured.”
However it was to not be.
Officers launched the names of extra victims and Ms. Shin, who was born in 1996, was on that checklist. Her physique was being stored the Seongnam Central Hospital as her household ready for a funeral.
