In an interview with news channel YTN,Hwang Min-hyeok,a visitor to Itaewon,said it was shocking to see rows of bodies near the hotel. He said emergency workers were initially overwhelmed,leaving pedestrians struggling to administer CPR to the injured lying on the streets. People wailed beside the bodies of their friends,he said.
Another survivor in his 20s said he avoided being trampled by managing to get into a bar whose door was open at the alley,Yonhap news agency reported. A woman in her 20s surnamed Park told Yonhap that she and others were standing along the side of the alley while others caught in the middle of the alley had no escape.