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A pupil stabbed three folks in a South Korean highschool on Monday.
The assault occurred at 8:36 am in Cheongju, south of Seoul, police reported.
Three people, together with the headmaster, sustained severe accidents.
South Korea:
A pupil stabbed three folks in a knife assault at a South Korean highschool Monday morning and injured two others, police mentioned.
The assault occurred round 8:36 am at a college in Cheongju, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Seoul, based on police studies.
Police obtained a report that “a pupil had stabbed somebody in a classroom with a knife,” Chungbuk Provincial Police Company mentioned in a press release despatched to reporters.
Three folks have been critically injured, together with the varsity’s headmaster, who suffered an belly stab wound, and a authorities worker who was stabbed in his chest.
Police mentioned two different folks suffered minor accidents.
The scholar tried to flee to a close-by lakeside park, the place he jumped into the lake, however was apprehended simply 12 minutes after the preliminary report, based on Cheongju police.
The 18-year-old was taken to a hospital as he suffered minor accidents.
“We try to find out the main points and motive,” a neighborhood police official instructed AFP.
The case comes simply months after a instructor fatally stabbed an eight-year-old pupil at an elementary faculty in South Korea.
Nonetheless, South Korea is mostly a really secure nation, with a homicide fee of 1.3 per 100,000 folks in 2021, based on official statistics — beneath the worldwide common of six murder deaths per 100,000 folks.
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