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In this disaster 153 precious lives were sacrificed.
They have been kept in about 40 funeral homes in Seoul and Gyeonggi province.
We will connect to the site of Dongguk University Hospital in Ilsan, where the greatest number of deaths are kept.
Reporter Kun-Hwi Kim, how is the situation there?
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This place has been immersed in bitterness all day.
11 people are being held at Dongguk University Hospital in Ilsan.
In the morning, bereaved families began arriving at the funeral home.
The grieving family waits in the morgue to confirm death in the morgue.
The crying was heard all the way to the funeral home’s lobby.
In particular, since most of the deaths are concentrated in their twenties, most of them are parents who have lost young children.
The grieving family is said to be in a state of great shock and the morgue is only now being prepared.
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I can’t help but feel sad.
Have all the identities of the dead been identified?
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Police said the identity of 150 of the 153 dead was confirmed through fingerprinting.
The dead are being held in some 40 hospitals, including Seoul and Gyeonggi province, and each hospital is in a terrible atmosphere.
More than 130 people were injured and 37 of them were seriously injured, so we should hope the death toll doesn’t increase further.
With the government declaring the national mourning period until November 5, the Seoul metropolitan government plans to install a joint incense burner in Seoul Plaza from tomorrow morning and Yongsan-gu in Itaewon Plaza.
Until now, this is Kim Gun-hwi of MBC News at the Dongguk University Hospital burial hall in Ilsan.
Video coverage: Gomyeong Dok / Video editing: Jo Ara
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