Bereaved families in South Korea have demanded that the makers of Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 4 remove real footage of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush from the video game, after players identified scenes from the disaster in its opening sequence.

Released worldwide last week , the first-person shooter opens with a montage of news reports about North Korea invading South Korea.

Among the clips is around three seconds of real broadcast footage showing a paramedic performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person lying in the street.

Other shots show bodies on the road and a victim being carried away on a stretcher.

South Korean players identified the footage as images from the Itaewon disaster, according to broadcaster SBS.

The crowd crush happened on 29 October 2022, when thousands of people gathered for Halloween celebrations in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in Seoul .

Revellers were packed into a narrow, sloping alley near the area’s bars and clubs when a surge of people triggered a…