Families of victims of the October 29 Itaewon disaster have filed a complaint against fire-service leaders who were in charge at the time. They allege that official documents inflated the number of firefighters deployed and were submitted to the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court. A central disaster-response document listed 906 firefighters, while reports to the two institutions listed 1,162.
The families also allege false reporting in an emergency-response assessment and a document on transferring command authority, but the supplied report does not include the accused officials’ responses or any investigative finding.