Man kills woman after failed sexual assault

By Chyung Eun-ju, Park Si-soo

Police have arrested a man in his 30s for killing a woman in her 70s after failing to rape her.

According to police, the man broke into the woman’s house in Shinan-gun, South Jeolla Province, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

He tried to rape her, but when she resisted and screamed, the man pushed a towel across her mouth, which led to her death, police said. A neighbor found the woman’s body at 1 p.m. on Friday.

Police arrested the man on Saturday after receiving information from the victim’s neighbors. The man reportedly admitted what he had done.