Ammon News - Eight people were wounded in a stabbing ​at a supermarket in the South Korean city ‌of Incheon on Tuesday, with one person suffering cardiac arrest, police said.

Officers responding to the scene arrested a male suspect and were investigating ​the motive and circumstances of the attack, a ​police spokesperson said by telephone.

A witness cited by ⁠Yonhap News Agency said the suspect appeared to ​have knives tethered to both hands and moved through ​several floors of the shopping complex, attacking people as he went before being subdued by bystanders and handed over to police.

South ​Korean media reports described the suspect as a man ​in his 60s who was wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet.

The ‌victims ⁠included six women and two men, with a woman in her 20s in cardiac arrest, the reports said.

Incheon, west of Seoul, is home to South Korea's ​main airport and ​forms part ⁠of the wider Seoul metropolitan area.

South Korea was shaken by a series of stabbing ​rampages in 2023, including attacks that left ​multiple ⁠people dead and injured.

More recently in May, a 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed and another teenager hurt in ⁠the ​southwestern city of Gwangju by a ​man in his 20s, who was later sentenced by a court to ​life in prison.


Reuters