Activision will remove real news footage of the 2022 Seoul Halloween crowd crush from its new Call of Duty game, the BBC reports. The company apologized and said the clips will come out in the game's next update, on November 12, the outlet reports.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 came out last week, the outlets report. Its story shows a made-up North Korean invasion of South Korea. A short montage early in the game uses a few seconds of real video from the crush, CBC reports. It shows people giving CPR and bodies covered by tarps on the street.

The crush happened in the narrow alleys of Seoul's Itaewon area, the outlets report. It killed 159 people and injured nearly 200 more, CBC reports. The BBC puts the toll at almost 160. More than 100,000 people had gone to the area for Halloween, the BBC reports. South Koreans marked four years since the disaster on Thursday.

"Using such an event as material for a game made for entertainment is in itself highly inappropriate and senseless," a group of victims' families said, the BBC reports. They said they were "appalled" to see the scene in a game.

Activision said it used the news clips "to establish the game's fictional narrative," the BBC reports. It said it did not mean to make light of the disaster. The families' group welcomed the move but said it had not received a direct apology, the outlet reports. CBC's report came out before Activision's decision to cut the clips.

What we know: Activision says the crowd crush clips will be removed on November 12.
What we don't: Whether the company will apologize to the families directly.