"I Came Here To Help Her Die" - South Korean Man Riding Excavator Rams Into Government Building

                  

Story out of Seoul, South Korea:

South Korean police detained a man who rammed a large excavator into a gate Tuesday near the office where prosecutors questioned a woman at the centre of a scandal that threatens the country’s president. The woman had earlier said she “deserves death” and the detained man said he “came here to help her die.”

The attack with heavy construction equipment on a government building is part of a frenzy of emotion in South Korea over the woman, Choi Soon-sil, whom prosecutors have detained as they examine whether she used her close ties to President Park Geun-hye to pull government strings from the shadows and amass an illicit fortune.

The man accused of running his big yellow excavator into the prosecution office near where Choi had been investigated later told officials that “since Choi Soon-sil said she committed a sin that deserves death, I came here to help her die,” according to police officer Han Jeung-sub. The man detained was identified as a 45-year-old surnamed Jeong. Cont.

Story from - South China Morning Post/AP
Video from - Associated Press - YouTube