Rotorua Daily Post

Seoul crush arrests

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South Korea has detained two senior police officers suspected of covering up an intelligen­ce report warning of a potential tragedy before the Halloween crush that killed 158 people. Park Sung-min, a former highrankin­g intelligen­ce officer at the Seoul Metropolit­an Police Agency, has been accused of ordering the deletion of an internal document that predicted a possible accident at the site, Yonhap news agency reported. His colleague Kim Jin-ho, a former intelligen­ce officer in the district where the disaster occurred, also allegedly told a subordinat­e to destroy the report.

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