India, Oct. 30 -- The maker of Call of Duty is facing fierce backlash in South Korea after people discovered real-life footage of the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush inside the game's latest instalment. The bereaved families' council and a coalition of civic groups have formally demanded that maker removes the clips from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. They condemned the studio for a "complete lack of sensitivity" toward a tragedy that claimed over 150 lives.

The seconds-long footage in the opening moments of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 represents a scenario that depicts the aftermath of a full-scale North Korean invasion of the South.

The real-life footage of chaos, with a figure performing CPR on a victim lying in the street, is us...