South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election, is conscious and has been transported to a local university hospital, a party official and a fire department official told Reuters.
Lee was attacked by an unidentified man while touring the site of a proposed airport, Yonhap said. The attack has left him with a gash of about 1 cm on his neck, YTN television reported.
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Numenor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
From the article: Then conservative opposition party leader Park Geun-hye, who later served as president, was attacked at an event in 2006 with a knife and suffered a gash on her faced that required surgery.
pmtriste@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Stabbed ... or bit?
Marsupial@quokk.au · 2 pts · 2y
It was a tiny man, wielding a pocket knife as a zweihander.
Crow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Did he use weapon arts?
learningduck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Is that a Train to Busan reference?