TOKYO (TR) – A South Korean student suspected in an attack with a hammer that injured eight fellow students at the Machida City campus of Hosei University on Friday told police that she had been bullied, reports TBS News (Jan. 11).
At around 3:40 p.m., Yoo Ju-hyeon, 22, a second-year student at Hosei University, allegedly struck a man, aged in his 20s, with what appeared to be a hammer during a class in the sociology department of the university’s Tama campus.
Seven others — five men and two women in their 20s and a 19-year-old woman — were also attacked. They suffered injuries to the head. However, none of their injuries are considered serious, police said.
Yoo admitted to the charges. “I was being bullied and feeling frustrated,” she said. “I was being ignored by a group of friends and I was feeling frustrated, so I hit [them] with a hammer that was at school.”
As the incident unfolded, other students subdued Yoo as she swung the hammer inside the building, the police said.
One student who was in the classroom at the time said, “A student sitting at the very back [of the room] was the first to be hit.”
Another student who was present said, “About 15 minutes after the class started, there was a commotion in the back, and a student was holding the back of his head and had blood on his hands.
