The top of South Korea’s Democratic Social gathering was brutally stabbed by a knife-wielding suspect throughout a press convention … and the horrifying assault was all caught on video.
Lee Jae-myung was at a public occasion surrounded by a gaggle of reporters and TV cameras in South Korea’s port metropolis of Busan Tuesday when the assailant approached him for an autograph earlier than out of the blue plunging a knife into his neck.
Try the loopy clip … Lee grimaces in ache as he collapses to the bottom after the stabbing. The group jumps on the suspect, who’s sporting a blue, paper crown round his head, tackling him to the pavement.
Different footage reveals Lee mendacity face up on the bottom together with his eyes closed as somebody applies a handkerchief to his neck wound to cease the bleeding.
Lee was rushed to a hospital in Busan, the place he was given emergency look after his neck damage, which was not life-threatening, in response to Reuters. He was then airlifted to a medical facility within the capital metropolis of Seoul for added remedy.
South Korean Democratic Social gathering spokesman Kwon Chil-seung held a press convention, saying that medical workers believes Lee suffered harm to his jugular vein.
In the meantime, police rapidly responded to the crime scene and arrested the 66-year-old man, who didn’t present a motive for the assault. The suspect reportedly faces an tried homicide cost.
