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Seoul, Jan 2 (EFE).- The leader of the South Korean Democratic Party (PD), Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck this Tuesday during a public event in the city of Busan (about 350 kilometers southeast of Seoul) and He has been rushed to the hospital.
The event took place at 10:27 local time (1:27 GMT) during an event on the land that will host the new Busan airport on the island of Gadeok when a man pounced on the leader of the main South Korean opposition bloc and stabbed him in the left side of the neck.
Lee was taken consciously to the hospital by an ambulance about 20 minutes later with significant bleeding, while the perpetrator of the attack was immediately arrested, according to the Yonhap agency.
According to eyewitnesses and images broadcast on television, the perpetrator of the attack approached Lee, apparently pretending to be one of his followers and asking for an autograph.
The man attacked the liberal politician by surprise by stabbing him with an object that has not yet been identified and that would have a length of between 20 and 30 centimeters.
Both South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and the leader of the ruling conservative People’s Power Party (PPP), Han Dong-hoon, have strongly condemned the attack and called for a full investigation into what happened. EFE
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