SEOUL - Bereaved families in South Korea have urged the publisher of Call of Duty to remove footage of the deadly 2022 Seoul crowd crush from the latest instalment of the video game, according to a report from The Guardian. The report was filed by Raphael Rashid from Seoul.

The Guardian reported that the game in question is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and that a clip from it shows a figure performing CPR and bodies lying in the street. The clips, which the report describes as seconds long, are the subject of the families' request.

According to The Guardian, the families have demanded that the makers of the game remove what the report describes as "harrowing footage" of the crush.

BBC News reported that Modern Warfare 4 uses video from the Itaewon crush to show the aftermath of what it described as an imagined North Korean attack. The BBC headline said victims were "appalled" that deadly crush footage had been included in Call of Duty. The BBC News summary does not state the length of the footage it describes.

The two reports name the event differently: The Guardian refers to the 2022 Seoul crowd crush, while BBC News refers to the Itaewon crush. Both reports concern the same game, Modern Warfare 4, and both describe footage of a deadly crush appearing in it.

Neither The Guardian nor BBC News, as summarized here, reports a response from the publisher of the game. The material reviewed for this story does not include any statement from the publisher about whether the footage will be removed.

Sources: The Guardian: Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game; BBC News: Victims appalled as deadly crush footage included in Call of Duty.