[Itawon Disaster] Uijeongbu Medical Institutions Temporarily Store Itawon Disaster Victims

10 Temporarily Stored Bodies... Bereaved Families to Transfer to Ancestral Areas and Set Up Mourning Halls

Ahead of Halloween, on the 30th, families of the missing are moving to identify the missing at the funeral hall of Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, where a large-scale crush disaster occurred in the Itaewon area. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] On the 30th, the bodies of victims who died in the Itaewon crowd crush disaster were temporarily placed in funeral halls of hospitals located in Uijeongbu-si, Gyeonggi Province.

At the funeral hall of Eulji University Uijeongbu Hospital, the bodies of five people in their 20s and 30s, including four women and one man, were temporarily placed, and at the nearby Catholic University Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital funeral hall, one male and one female body were temporarily placed.

In addition, three victims' bodies were temporarily placed in the funeral halls of Uijeongbu Paik Hospital and Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Uijeongbu Hospital.

At each funeral hall, the bereaved families identified the victims, and the hospitals provided waiting rooms for the families within the funeral hall buildings and supported them.

The bereaved families agreed with the funeral halls to move the bodies to their respective residences in Seoul, Suwon in Gyeonggi, Dangjin in Chungnam, and set up mourning rooms.