A man with a car and a stabbing weapon injured more than a dozen people in a suspected killing spree in South Korea. The man initially steered his car onto a sidewalk near a subway station in the south of Seoul city of Seongnam, dragging and injuring several passers-by, South Korean broadcasters and the national news agency Yonhap reported on Thursday, citing eyewitnesses and the police. He then got out and walked towards a department store, where he randomly stabbed people with a knife. According to the police, 14 people were injured, eight of them seriously.
The suspect was reportedly arrested about ten minutes after the first 911 calls in the late afternoon (local time). The authorities spoke of only one suspect. The motives for his behavior were initially unclear.
The news channel YTN showed pictures from inside the department store, in which a man with a dark hood attacked people with an alleged knife. The suspect is between 20 and 30 years old, according to Yonhap. At least nine people were injured by the attacker with the knife and four other people were hit by him in front of him.
The incident came just two weeks after a man stabbed four pedestrians in the capital, Seoul. According to police, one of the pedestrians was killed.
