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Injured people are helped at a street near the scene of a crush in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 30, 2022. South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, rejected an attempt by lawmakers to oust the country’s public safety minister over the Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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Lee Sang-min, Minister of the Interior and Safety, center, speaks at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, voted to impeach Lee, him responsible for government failures in disaster planning and the response that likely contributed to the high death toll of a crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in October. (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP)

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