One person was killed and three others were injured today in “sharp object attack” carried out by a man near a subway station in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, as police said.

The attack took place near Sillim subway station in southwest Seoul, police said, adding that they arrested the attacker at the scene.

“The suspect is a man in his 30s who does not appear to be under the influence of alcohol. We are interrogating him to (tell us) the motive of his crime,” the police clarified.

According to footage from the local television network YTNrescuers in orange suits and stretchers are at the scene while the police have cordoned off the area.

“The man shouted that he no longer wanted to live when he was arrested by the police,” YTN reported.

Other footage broadcast by YTN appears to show police arresting the suspect. In a resigned manner, sitting on the steps, when armed policemen approach him and take him into custody.

“People came running into my shop, they told me that a man holding a big knife was attacking people. We closed and locked the door,” a shop owner in the area told YTN.

According to witnesses, the suspect stabbed a man on the phone several times in the back before running away and attacking other people, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

“The four victims were men,” the newspaper added.

The attack quickly became a topic on Korean social media.

“Don’t go to Sillim now. I called the police when I saw an injured man lying on the ground,” a user with the nickname sanong_cos warned on Twitter.

Earlier this year, in the southern city of Busan, a 23-year-old TV series fanatic stabbed to death a woman he had met online, local media reported.

In March, a 37-year-old woman was accused of injuring three people with a knife on the subway after they called her an “ajumma,” a Korean word for middle-aged woman.

Last year, a man stabbed to death a former colleague at a subway station whom he had been harassing for years. He was sentenced to tens of years in prison.

Despite these isolated attacks, South Korea is generally considered an extremely safe countrywith a homicide rate of just 1.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, according to official statistics.