Man wields knife on Seoul street, wounding four

A man attacked his former colleagues and passers-by with a knife on a busy street in Seoul Wednesday, leaving four wounded, police said.

The 30-year-old man identified only as Kim wielded a knife on a street in Seoul's main financial district of Yeouido around 7:16 p.m., wounding four people, they said.

"Two of the four are Kim's former colleagues and two others are among the passers-by," a police officer at Yeongdeungpo Police Station said. "After stabbing the former colleagues with a fruit knife that he brought out of resentment against them, he appears to have accidentally wounded the remaining two."

The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals. A woman was in serious condition but the injury wasn't life-threatening, according to other sources.

The suspect was arrested by police officers who came to the scene upon receiving a notification. Police said that an investigation was under way to find out the exact motive behind the attack.

The incident followed a series of stabbing rampages against innocent people.

In one such case, a man attacked passengers on Saturday on a subway platform with a box cutter in Euijeongbu, a city 23 kilometers north of the capital city, leaving seven victims wounded.

On Tuesday, another man was arrested for stabbing a woman at a bar in Suwon, just south of Seoul, after attempting to rape her. The incident left one dead and four others seriously injured. (Yonhap)