8 February 2023 at 10:43 South Korea’s interior minister is impeached after the Halloween tragedy The parliament in South Korea voted on Wednesday to impeach interior minister Lee Sang-min after the Halloween tragedy last October. 159 people died and 196 were injured when crowding and panic broke out during a celebration in narrow streets in the capital, Seoul. A 20-year-old woman from Sandnes was among the dead. Investigators then determined that the cause of the tragedy was poor planning of the event and the response from the emergency services. Now a majority in parliament has voted for the Minister of the Interior to be held responsible. He has been suspended from his position, according to Reuters. The impeachment decision sends the case to the country’s Constitutional Court, which has six months to decide whether Lee should be removed permanently.
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