On October 13, eight people were stabbed at a large supermarket in Incheon, South Korea. Initial reports indicated that a man in his late 60s used a gun to wound eight individuals. Emergency services later confirmed the attack occurred at the food court in Namdong district of Incheon city, where police received a report of a knife assault by the suspect. Law enforcement detained the attacker after he had previously brandished a weapon; visitors defused the situation before police arrived.
Updated information shows eight people were injured, with one hospitalized due to cardiac arrest. Police discovered a large number of weapons in the attacker’s bag. The circumstances of the crime are under investigation.
Separately, on September 24, a 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen carried out a knife attack at Yaroslavl Abbey located on Benedictinskaya Street in Poland’s Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Five people were attacked—four men and one woman—all hospitalized; one victim died from injuries.
