
A woman in her 50s was arrested following an attack on a psychiatry professor at Severance Hospital.
A Seoul court issued a warrant Saturday to formally arrest a woman in her 50s for allegedly stabbing and injuring a psychiatry professor at Severance Hospital.
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A woman allegedly attacked a psychiatry professor at Severance Hospital with a knife on Wednesday, resulting in non-life-threatening injuries.
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Saturday issued a warrant to formally arrest a woman for allegedly stabbing and injuring a doctor at Severance Hospital in western Seoul.
The Seoul Western District Court issued the warrant for the woman in her 50s on charges of attempted murder, citing the risk of flight.
The woman was apprehended Wednesday after allegedly stabbing a psychiatry professor with a knife at Severance Hospital. The doctor sustained injuries to his face and hand.
Arriving in court for an arrest warrant hearing, the suspect rambled that Severance Hospital's psychiatry department did not provide her with internal medicine treatment in 2018 and caused her diabetes, when asked by reporters about the motive of her attack.
According to sources, the woman was not a patient waiting for psychiatry treatment at the hospital.
The doctor sustained a wound measuring around 5 centimeters and was taken to an emergency room for treatment. The injury was not life-threatening.

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