Mall Stabbing Rampage Leaves 14 Hurt in Korea, Yonhap Says

Police officers cordon off the scene near a subway station in Seongnam on Aug. 3.Photographer: Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo
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Fourteen people were injured after a man drove a car onto a pedestrian walkway and went on a stabbing rampage at a department store near Seoul, Yonhap NewsBloomberg Terminal reported, citing police.

The police arrested the 22-year old suspect on Thursday after receiving a report that a man was stabbing people at the department store in the affluent Bundang district just South of Seoul at 5:59 p.m., according to Yonhap. Nine people were stabbed by the attacker, with eight of them in critical condition. Five others were hit by the car before the rampage, with two of them suffering serious injuries.