Knife Attack on Doctor at Sinchon Severance Hospital; Suspect Arrested (Update)
A professor of psychiatry was injured in a knife attack at Severance Hospital in Sinchon, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.
On the afternoon of November 4, Seodaemun Police Station said it had arrested a suspect on suspicion of inflicting aggravated injury with a weapon after the suspect stabbed a professor of psychiatry at Severance Hospital in Sinchon, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, at around 4:30 p.m.
A view of Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System. Severance Hospital
View original imageThe doctor reportedly suffered a stab wound about 5 cm long and was taken to the emergency room for treatment.
The suspect is a woman in her 50s. Police are still determining whether she was a patient waiting for an appointment at the time.
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Police are investigating the suspect to establish the specific motive and circumstances of the crime.
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