South Korean police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife in the city of Daejeon on Friday, in the country’s second apparently random knife attack in two days.
Officials at the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency did not immediately release the personal details of the suspect, describing him only as a man in his late 20s.
According to police, the suspect waited for the teacher to step out of a classroom at Songchon High School before stabbing him and fleeing the scene, which according to officials suggests they were acquaintances.
Police and fire department authorities did not specify the teacher’s health condition.
The incident follows a separate attack on Thursday in which a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and stabbed multiple pedestrians, injuring 14 people near a busy subway station in Seongnam, at the heart of a bustling leisure and business district.
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.
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