Student’s stabbing rampage injures 3 in South Korea
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Three people were seriously injured, including the school’s headmaster, who suffered an abdominal stab wound, and a government employee who was stabbed in his chest.
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SEOUL – A student stabbed three people in a knife attack at a South Korean high school on April 28 morning and injured two others, the police said.
The attack happened around 8.36am at a school in Cheongju, 110km south of Seoul, according to police reports.
The police received a report that “a student had stabbed someone in a classroom with a knife”, Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency said in a statement sent to reporters.
Three people were seriously injured, including the school’s headmaster, who suffered an abdominal stab wound, and a government employee who was stabbed in his chest.
The police said two other people suffered minor injuries.
They were taken to nearby hospitals, including Cheonan Dankook University Hospital.
The student attempted to flee to a nearby lakeside park, where he jumped into the lake, but was apprehended just 12 minutes after the initial report, according to Cheongju police.
The 18-year-old was taken to a hospital as he suffered minor injuries.
“We are trying to determine the details and motive,” a local police official told AFP.
The case comes just months after a teacher fatally stabbed an eight-year-old student at an elementary school in South Korea.
However, South Korea is generally a very safe country, with a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to official statistics – below the global average of six homicide deaths per 100,000 people. AFP
