A student yesterday stabbed three people in a knife attack at a South Korean high school and injured two others, police said.
The attack happened at 8:36am at a school in Cheongju, 110km south of Seoul, police reports said.
Police received a report that “a student had stabbed someone in a classroom with a knife,” Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency said in a statement.
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Three people were seriously injured, including the school’s principal, who suffered an abdominal stab wound, and a government employee who was stabbed in the chest.
Police said two other people suffered minor injuries.
The student attempted to flee to a nearby lakeside park, where he jumped into the lake, but was apprehended just 12 minutes after the initial report, Cheongju police said.
The 18-year-old was taken to hospital as he suffered minor injuries.
“We are trying to determine the details and motive,” a police official said.
The case comes just months after a teacher fatally stabbed an eight-year-old student at an elementary school in South Korea.
South Korea is generally a very safe nation, with a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to official statistics — below the global average of six homicide deaths per 100,000 people.
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