Emergency arrest of hit-and-run driver after 18 hours, middle school student dies as ice at Lake Park breaks

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A driver in his 30s who hit a woman in her 60s while crossing the crosswalk at dawn and ran away was urgently arrested following 18 hours.

At a lake park in Seoul, a frozen ice sheet broke and a middle school student drowned and died.

This is reporter Kim Moon-hee.

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Yesterday around 4 am, a woman in her 60s with a cane was hit by a car running across the crosswalk at a pedestrian signal.

Two people got out of the car and looked at the woman for a while, and an ambulance arrived 4 minutes later.

However, by the time the police car arrived, the vehicle had already fled and was gone.

After a police chase, the driver was arrested following 18 hours.

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“We made an emergency arrest on the road in front of the Veterans Hospital in Sungui-dong, and the passenger was induced to attend voluntarily and was charged with aiding and abetting.”

The victim suffered serious head and back injuries and is being treated in the intensive care unit.

Police are investigating whether he was drunk or driving.

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An ambulance enters the lake park in the early morning hours when there is no traffic.

A middle school student fell and died at a lake park in Seoul around 4 am this morning.

While walking on a frozen lake with four friends, the ice broke and one fell into the water 2 meters deep.

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“It was going from the beginning to the other side and fell off. The (the rest) kids were shivering from the cold.”

It is presumed that the student tried to cross the lake over this fence and failed to get out of the water.

Police are investigating how the friends climbed the ice at dawn.

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This morning, a man in his 40s wielded a knife at a convenience store, killing an employee and injuring a customer who was drying it.

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“Even if someone says they have a weapon in their hand, they see us and ask for help.”

An arrest warrant has been applied for, but the perpetrator has yet to reveal the reason for the crime.

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At the construction site of a five-story building, the screen structure tilted regarding 2,30 degrees, and regarding 10 construction workers and residents were evacuated.

The fire department is fixing the screen so that it does not cover nearby houses.

This is Kim Moon-hee from MBC News.

Video coverage: Heo Won-cheol, Kang Jong-soo / Video editing: Jo Min-woo / Video courtesy: Yoon Jae-seung (viewer)

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