Second attack in less than 24 hours in South Korea: a man enters a school and stabs a teacher

A teacher was stabbed this Friday at a high school in the South Korean city of Daejeon by a man who was arrested after fleeing, according to the Local Police, in the second stabbing that has occurred in the country in just 24 hours.

The suspect, who is believed to be around 20 or 30 years old, stabbed the teacher several times, including in the face and chest, at around 03:03 Spanish time. The 49-year-old professor was found unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he is undergoing emergency surgical interruption.. The agents detained the perpetrator of the attack 7 kilometers from the school.

The suspect entered the center's main door after introducing himself as a graduate of the center and went to look for the teacher in the staff room, according to witness accounts.. Finding out that he was in class, she waited for him until he came out to stab him.. After the attack, the detainee fled. Police authorities are investigating the motives for the assault and believe the suspect knew the victim, as a witness testified that he heard the teacher say: “It's my fault.”

It is the second stabbing incident in South Korea in less than 24 hours, after a man carried out an indiscriminate attack on the Seohyeon subway station in the city of Seongnam, part of the of the greater Seoul area, in which 14 people were injured.

Two of the injured are in critical condition. The police detained the alleged perpetrator of the attacks with a knife when he was trying to flee the scene of the crime, where there was also the run-over of five pedestrians by a vehicle that was used by the same attacker.

previous threats

A series of anonymous individuals threatened to carry out stabbings on Friday, after an attack on a store south of Seoul left at least fourteen injured the day before, forcing authorities to intensify surveillance.

The event took place near a shopping center and next to the Seohyeon subway station, in the city of Seongnam, which is part of the capital's metropolitan area, shortly before 11:00 a.m. (Spanish time) on Thursday. An hour after the stabbing, several threatening texts circulated on social networks, one of them in which an individual threatened “mass stabbings” at the Ori station with the aim of “killing as many people as possible”.

In a second text, another individual shared a photo of a weapon and threatened to kill 20 people at the Seohyeon station this Friday, according to the South Korean agency Yonhap, and the authorities indicated that two other texts would have been received a few hours later with similar threats.

Police launched an investigation to hunt down the perpetrators of these threats and intensified online surveillance, while squads were dispatched to the Ori and Seohyeon subway stations, as well as two other subway stations in the area, to They were prepared to respond to any emergency situation.