Eight injured in Incheon supermarket stabbing; suspect arrested
Police said eight people were injured in a supermarket stabbing in Incheon on Tuesday, while media reports said a woman in her 20s suffered cardiac arrest.
Incheon, South Korea. A supermarket stabbing in Incheon on Tuesday wounded eight people, including one who suffered cardiac arrest, police said. Officers arrested a male suspect at the scene.
Police investigate attack
A police spokesperson, speaking by telephone, said investigators were examining what prompted the attack and how it unfolded.
According to a witness quoted by Yonhap News Agency, the suspect appeared to have knives attached to each hand. The witness said he attacked people while moving between floors of the shopping complex, before bystanders restrained him and turned him over to officers.
South Korean media described the suspect as being in his 60s and wearing an ankle bracelet for electronic monitoring. The reports said six women and two men were among those injured, and identified the person in cardiac arrest as a woman in her 20s.
Earlier stabbings in South Korea
Situated west of Seoul, Incheon hosts South Korea’s principal airport and is within the broader Seoul metropolitan area.
A succession of stabbing rampages shook South Korea in 2023, with several people killed and others injured.
In May, a man in his 20s fatally stabbed a 17-year-old girl and injured another teenager in Gwangju, a city in the southwest. A court subsequently imposed a life sentence on him.
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