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Eight people hurt in supermarket stabbing in South Korea's Incheon, police say

  • Incheon, west of Seoul, is home to South ​Korea’s main airport and forms ​part of the wider Seoul metropolitan area
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SEOUL: Eight people were wounded in ​a stabbing incident 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.

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.

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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.