PHOTOS Professor injured in parcel bomb explosion at Yonsei University
A police SWAT team reacts to a parcel bomb explosion in Yonsei University’s engineering faculty building Tuesday morning. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
By Lee Han-soo
A parcel exploded at Yonsei University on Tuesday morning, injuring a professor.
The unidentified package was delivered to a laboratory in an engineering complex. The parcel exploded as the professor, surnamed Kim, opened it at about 8:40 a.m.
“A delivery package suddenly exploded when it was opened,” a witness said.
Other people said they saw small screws flying from the box. Kim was taken to nearby Severance Hospital, where he was in a stable condition.
“I found a box in a shopping bag hanging on a door knob,” he told police. “It suddenly exploded when I opened it."
Police and military bomb squad units are at the scene.
"So far, we believe that the explosion occurred from one side of the parcel,” a police officer told Yonhap News Agency. “The explosives appear to have been clumsily made."
Police have not ruled out a terrorist attack.
The remains of the parcel bomb. / Yonhap
A military search of Yonsei University’s engineering faculty building was under way with the building sealed off. / Yonhap
A police SWAT team patrols Yonsei University with sniffer dogs after the explosion. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
People leave the building where the bomb exploded. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk