<p>One person was killed and three injured during a stabbing incident near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Reuters reported. A man went on a stabbing spree near exit 4 of the Sillim Subway Station in southwest Seoul.</p> <p>Quoting Yonhap News Agency based in South Korea, the report said that the suspect, a man in his 30s, was detained by the police and taken for questioning to know the motive behind the crime.</p> <p>"He did not look intoxicated. We are questioning him as to the motive of his crime," police said, Reuters reported. Among the injured, one person is in critical condition. </p> <p>As per AP News, Min Moon-ki, an official from Seoul’s Gwanak district police office, said the victim who died was male but didn’t share his personal details. </p> <p>Following the incident, emergency responders rushed towards the site carrying stretchers. The police cordoned off the area.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ: <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/lD4u0Gb Burning Row: Iraq Expels Sweden Envoy, Protesters Torch Baghdad Swedish Embassy, Says Report</a></span></strong></p> <p>According to the report, the man shouted that "he didn’t want to live anymore" as he was being apprehended by the police. </p> <p>"When police came, he said something along the lines of he didn't want to live, that things weren't going as he wished," a witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told South Korean broadcaster YTN, as per Reuters.</p> <p>Eyewitnesses said the suspect stabbed a man who was talking on the phone in the back multiple times before fleeing and attacking more people.</p> <p>The incident in Seoul quickly began circulating on social media.</p> <p>“Don’t come to Sillim now. There is a crazy man on a stabbing rampage. I called the police after seeing a person injured on the ground,” one tweeted. </p> <p>Considered an extremely safe country, South Korea had a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 people in 2021, AFP quoted official statistics. </p>
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