2 American college students among at least 153 dead in Seoul crowd crush

Officials and family identified the known American victims as Anne Gieske of northern Kentucky and Steven Blesi of Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

A woman places flowers to pay tribute for victims near the scene of a deadly accident in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022, following Saturday night's Halloween festivities. A mass of mostly young people among tens of thousands who gathered to celebrate Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing dozens of people and injuring dozens of others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (Ahn Young-joon, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Two U.S. college students studying abroad were identified Sunday as the only known Americans among at least 153 people who died in a crush of Halloween revelers in Seoul.

Anne Gieske, a third-year nursing student at the University of Kentucky, was among the those who died in overcrowded streets Friday night, the school’s president, Eli Capilouto, announced to the school Sunday.

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Gieske, of northern Kentucky, was studying in South Korea this semester, Capilouto said.

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