SEOUL: South Korean police said no safety personnel were deployed at an outdoor pop concert where a ventilation grate collapsed, killing 16 people and injuring nine others.
“From the beginning, there were no safety personnel for the concert,” a police spokesman told reporters yesterday, according to Yonhap news agency, after about 20 people were questioned over the incident Friday in the city of Seongnam south of Seoul.
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