Police said Tuesday that a graduate student had been arrested on suspicion of a parcel bomb attack that injured a college professor earlier in the morning.
The suspect is a 25-year-old graduate school student who also studies engineering at the same university, according to the police.
An unidentified parcel bomb exploded at Seoul’s Yonsei University on Tuesday, causing injury to the professor who opened the parcel. Police said it appeared to be a nail bomb similar to that used in a recent terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.
The explosive, made from a coffee tumbler, gunpowder and four AA-size batteries, was “clumsily made” and looked like it was the work of an amateur, police said. However, it contained scores of screws 1 centimeter long or shorter to make it more lethal.
The explosive, made from a coffee tumbler, gunpowder and four of AA-size batteries, is found inside a professor’s office in Yonsei University in western Seoul, Tuesday. (Yonhap)
Police have cordoned off the site of a suspected parcel bomb attack at Yonsei University in western Seoul on June 13, 2017. (Yonhap)
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