Breaking : 1 dead, 3 wounded in stabbing rampage in Seoul

[SBFNews]

2023-07-21 15:58

1 dead, 3 wounded in stabbing rampage in Seoul​

Sillim Station in Seoul / Yonhap

A man went on a stabbing rampage near Sillim subway station in southwestern Seoul on Friday, killing one man and wounding three others.

The man wielded a weapon near Exit 4 of the subway station around 2 p.m., killing a man in his 20s. The other three wounded men were sent to a hospital for treatment, but one of them was reportedly in a life-threatening condition.

Police shortly apprehended a man in his 30s at the scene as a suspect, and an investigation is under way to determine the motive of the crime and relations between the suspect and the victims.

Police officers had been sent to the scene upon an emergency call reporting that "Somebody has stabbed people and is running away." (Yonhap)

 

[SBFNews]

1 dead, 3 injured in Seoul stabbing rampage: Police​

Published July 21, 2023
Updated July 21, 2023

SEOUL — One person was killed and three more wounded when a man went on a "stabbing rampage" near a subway station in the South Korean capital Seoul on Friday (July 21), police told AFP.
The attack took place near the Sillim Subway Station in southwest Seoul, police said, adding that the suspect had been detained by police at the scene.

"The suspect is a man in his 30s and he did not look intoxicated. We are questioning him as to the motive of his crime," they said.

The Yonhap News Agency reported that the attack happened near Exit 4 of the subway station at 2.07pm local time (1.07pm Singapore time).

A video posted on local television station YTN's YouTube channel showed orange-vested emergency responders running towards the incident carrying stretchers.

Police had cordoned off the area with yellow tape, the footage showed.

"The man shouted he didn't want to live anymore as he was being apprehended by the police," YTN reported.

South Korea is typically an extremely safe country, with a murder rate of just 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to official statistics.

By comparison, America has 7.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 people, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The rare incident in Seoul quickly began circulating on Korean-language social media.

"Don't come to Sillim now. There is a crazy man on a stabbing rampage. I called the police after seeing a person injured on the ground," one user with the handle "sanong_cos" wrote on Twitter. AFP

 

[syed putra]

Ambush by the sound of it. Revenge. Bullying is big in Korea.

 

[Loofydralb]

Guess the religion

 

[laksaboy]

Ambush by the sound of it. Revenge. Bullying is big in Korea.

Maybe similar situation to this incident in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Akihabara_massacre

 

[red amoeba]

Too much kimchi and shochu