"With weapons strapped to both hands, he attacked whoever he saw..." Knife rampage at Homeplus Guwol branch

"Attempted to move from the basement to the 4th floor"
Possibility of a "random" attack

There are indications that a man in his 50s who stabbed eight visitors at a large commercial facility in Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, may have carried out what is known as a “random” attack.

Yonhap News Agency

According to Yonhap News on October 13, the first person to report the incident, Na, 31, said, “A man about 165 centimeters tall swung a weapon with both hands. He started stabbing people on the second basement level, where the Homeplus store is, and came up on an escalator.”

Na said, “He seemed to attack everyone who caught his eye as he moved. Seeing that he had weapons tied to both hands, it looks like he had prepared in advance.”

Na was eating at the food court on the second floor when they heard screams and went toward the scene. Together with the restaurant owner, Na used chairs to block the approach of A, a 59-year-old man. Na said, “A rode an escalator in the opposite direction from the second-floor restaurant area up to the third floor. When the entrance to the fourth floor, where GGV is located, was blocked with chairs, he went back down to the third floor.”

Na and two other men subdued A on the third floor and handed him over to police who arrived at the scene. Na said, “A did not say anything while he was being subdued.”

Injured people are taken to hospital after a stabbing at a large commercial complex housing Homeplus' Incheon Guwol branch on the 13th. Yonhap News.

A is accused of swinging a weapon and injuring eight visitors at a large commercial facility in Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, at around 1:40 p.m. on October 13. A woman in her 20s is in cardiac arrest, while seven other people, both men and women in their 20s to 50s, are receiving treatment at hospitals. Police have arrested A and are investigating the exact circumstances of the attack.

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