A man in his 50s who allegedly killed five of his family members is escorted to a police station in Yongin, some 40 kilometers south of Seoul, on April 15, 2025. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SUWON, South Korea, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have launched an investigation into a man who allegedly killed five of his family members, including his parents and children, officials said Wednesday.
The man in his 50s is accused of drugging five family members with sleeping pills and strangling them to death at an apartment in Yongin, some 40 kilometers south of Seoul, on Tuesday.
The victims were his parents, both in their 80s; his wife, in her 50s; and his two daughters, with one in her 20s and the other in her teens, officials said.
The man, who had been unconscious at the time of his arrest, regained consciousness after treatment and was later put on emergency arrest on charges of murder.
Police plan to look into the motive of the crime and the exact account of how the case unfolded while seeking a formal arrest warrant for the suspect.
They also requested an autopsy on the bodies of the victims to determine the exact cause of their deaths.
(Yonhap)
