Transcripts of the 11 emergency calls made in the previous hours reveal the growing fear of revelers and how they prompted police to intervene as the Halloween party descended into chaos and tragedy. The first warning of a potentially fatal explosion came at 6:34 p.m. Saturday, about four hours before the crash turned fatal. National Police Commissioner-General Yoon Hee-keun acknowledged on Tuesday that crowd control at the scene was “inadequate” and revealed that police had received multiple reports of possible accidents on the night of the disaster. The home secretary and the city’s mayor also apologized as experts said proper crowd control and traffic control could have prevented, or at least reduced, the surge. The transcripts, released to the media, give a chilling foreshadowing of how the tragedy would unfold. “It looks like you can crash to death with people still coming in here and there’s no room for people to get off,” someone said in the first call to police. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 2:45 Seoul: How Halloween turned deadly? “I just managed to leave, but there are too many people, it looks like you should come check.” Saturday’s crash killed 156 people, many in their teens and 20s, and injured another 157 as revelers flooded the narrow streets of Itaewon to celebrate the first mostly unrestricted Halloween in three years. Police received 10 more calls, all reporting too many people, before it became known that things had turned fatal. South Korea’s police chief feels ‘heavy responsibility’ for Halloween outbreak The transcripts appeared to corroborate the accounts of witnesses, who said they saw some police directing traffic on the main road, but few or no officers in the busy pedestrian areas. About 100,000 people were estimated to be in Itaewon on Saturday, an area known for its hills and narrow streets. Authorities say there were 137 officers there at the time. Image: Personal belongings left behind by victims and survivors of the tragedy have been collected in the hope that the owners, or their friends and family, will retrieve them Another transcript from a call made at 8:33 p.m. it read: “People are falling into the streets, it looks like there might be an accident, it looks very dangerous.” The last call released by police came in at 10:11 p.m., minutes before people gathered in a particularly narrow and sloping alley began to fall over each other. “(People) are going to crash to death in here. It’s chaotic,” the transcript of that call says, noting that screams could be heard over the phone. Read more: K-Pop singer and actor Lee Jihan, 24, killed in crowd crush in Seoul on Halloween Police went to the scene for four of the 11 calls, an official told reporters. It was not immediately clear why they did not deploy officers to the other calls or what security measures they took after they arrived. “These things are all under control now, so it’s difficult for me to answer at this point,” a National Police Service official said. Image: National Police Commissioner Yoon Hee-geun “The police will quickly and strictly conduct intensive inspections and investigations of all aspects without exception to explain the truth of this accident,” Police Commissioner Yun said at a press conference earlier. As police began investigating how so many people were killed, Prime Minister Han Dak-soo said the investigation would also cover whether the on-the-ground responses of government agencies were adequate. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a week of national mourning and called for better security measures to manage the crowds even when there is no central organizing entity. The celebrations at Itaewon had no central organizer, which meant that government authorities were not required to establish or enforce security protocols.