A Korean woman has been stabbed to death and her husband and daughter seriously injured in a robbery in Vietnam’s commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sunday, an armed man who broke into their home in Phu My Hung, an affluent area in District 7, on Saturday at around 2 a.m. killed the woman, 49, and wounded her husband, 50, surnamed Yoon, and their daughter, 16. The Korea Times reports.
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Neighbors and construction workers nearby heard their screams and called police.
Yoon and the daughter were taken to a nearby hospital where they underwent surgery. Their son, 11, who was there at the time, was unhurt.
Ambulances at the hospital where the Korean victims received surgery in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday. Korea Times photo by Jung Min-seung
According to the Korean Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and local media reports, the man was wearing a mask and a hoodie. He fled in a car, which police found destroyed by fire in a field 10 kilometers away, near Thu Thiem Bridge in District 2 of Ho Chi Minh City and suspected of being in conjunction with the murder, according to a source close to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
A car was found burned in District 2 and suspected of being in conjunction with a robbery-murder in District 7, HCMC, December 21, 2019. Photo: Minh Hoa / Tuoi Tre
After checking surveillance cameras in the area, investigators are hunting for the suspect, the Korean Consulate General told the Hankook Ilbo, sister paper of The Korea Times.
The man stole expensive jewelry, but the Korean Consulate General said it was too early to tell if it was a robbery or a grudge crime.
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