(Update with arrest of the author and more details)
Seoul, Aug 4 (EFE).- A teacher was stabbed this Friday at a high school in the South Korean city of Daejeon by an unidentified man who was arrested after fleeing, local police reported, in the second stabbing incident in the country in just one day.
The suspect, believed to be in his 20s or 30s, stabbed the teacher several times, including in the face and chest, at around 10:03 a.m. local time (1:03 GMT) in the center of the aforementioned city located 139 kilometers south of Seoul, according to details published by the local Yonhap news agency.
The perpetrator of the attack was detained on a street about 7 or 8 kilometers from the school after noon, the agency added.
The 49-year-old professor was found unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he is undergoing emergency surgery.
The suspect entered the front door of the school after introducing himself as a graduate of the school and went to look for the teacher in the staff room, according to witness accounts. Upon learning that he was in class, she waited for him to come out to stab him, after which he fled, according to police.
Police authorities are investigating the motives for the attack 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.
Police detained the alleged perpetrator of the attacks with a knife as he tried to flee the scene of the crime, where five pedestrians were run over by a vehicle believed to have been used by the same attacker.
Another event of these characteristics took place on July 21, when a man began stabbing pedestrians in the street, leaving one dead and three injured.
After the incident the day before, a series of anonymous individuals have threatened on social networks to carry out mass stabbings and the police have launched an investigation to find the perpetrators and have intensified surveillance.
Earlier today police detained an individual who was wandering through a bus terminal in Gangnam, south of Seoul, brandishing a knife and intimidating a security guard, with no casualties reported. EFE
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