South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Wednesday vowed to hold police accountable for the deadly surge in Halloween crowds in Seoul after a log of emergency calls showed authorities were slow to respond.

Crowds in the narrow streets of Itaewon’s entertainment district killed 156 people on Saturday, mostly costumed young partygoers looking for a night of fun in the wake of the pandemic.

The first 911 call was made at 6:34 p.m., with a nervous caller warning that police needed to control the crowd before the crowd turned deadly.

What follows is a condensed transcript obtained by AFP of about a dozen of those increasingly frantic calls to the police:

“It gets really edgy with people pacing up and down that alley. People can’t go down here, but people keep coming up. I feel like people are being crushed to death. I barely got out. I think you have to control the situation.”

“Too many people are being pushed, trampled, injured here. It’s messy. You have to control that.”

“People get trampled on the streets here. This is getting dangerous… There is no control and a three-lane road is completely closed. I shot a video. can i send it to you

“People are being crushed almost to death… There are too many people… This is not a prank call.”

“The situation here is on the verge of getting into a serious accident with too many people. They must come to bring it under control.”

“People are being pushed hard here and everyone is panicking… Please do something to make room here. I think people will die here.”

“I’m in danger of being crushed to death with so many people here… I’m asking you to direct the one-way traffic here.”

“The situation here is really serious. People in the alley are being pushed so hard… This isn’t just a shop area. The whole alley is (in danger).”

“I get it. We’ll use police officers there,” a police officer told the caller.

“There are too many people here. Can you come here as soon as possible to control the crowd?”

“It looks like people are being crushed to death there…total chaos.”