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

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

SEOUL, Oct 13 - 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.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

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