SEOUL: South Korean police have detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife on Friday in the city of Daejeon.random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway stationOfficials at the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency did not immediately release the personal details of the suspect in the Friday morning attack on the teacher at Songchon High School, describing him only as a man in his late 20s.
Among the five people who were hurt by the car, at least two were hospitalised in critical condition. Among the nine who were stabbed, eight were being treated for serious injuries, according to Gyeonggi Province fire department officials. The suspect purchased the two knives he used in the stabbings from a different shopping mall on Wednesday, Park said, but there isn’t clear evidence he planned the attack in advance.Photos from the scene showed forensic units examining the halls of the AK Plaza, where the attack took place Thursday. A white Kia hatchback with a broken front window and ruptured front tire could be seen on a sidewalk near the subway station.
“Suddenly, someone told us the person who committed the crime was coming up to the second floor, so we ran away in panic,” he said. He ended up hiding inside a refrigerated storage room with some mall employees.In July,, Seoul, killing one person. Attacks by firearms are rare in South Korea, which tightly controls gun possession, but there aren’t meaningful restrictions applying to knives, including kitchen tools that are often used for attacks.