A knife-wielding man claiming he was driven by voices urging him to kill slashed 10 young children yesterday in a church school cafeteria in the South Korean capital, police said.
"A deranged man rushed into the church cafeteria and slashed nine children who were having lunch," the detective in charge of the case said by telephone. "Some of the kids are seriously injured."
The man picked up two kitchen knives from the table and began attacking the children, aged four to seven, witnesses told police.
One child was in a critical condition with a stab wound in the head, said police Lieutenant Kim Sa-yeon.
The man, whom police identified only by his last name Hwang, told authorities that he heard voices on Tuesday night telling him that he would be killed unless he killed many people.
"He said he was haunted by somebody else who tried to kill him. We are investigating him now," a police officer said.
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