<Anchor> With
hate crimes targeting Asians in the United States seldom disappearing, this time in San Francisco, two Asian elderly people were stabbed in broad daylight.
This is Kim Jong-won's correspondent from New York.
<Reporter>
A bus stop in downtown San Francisco on the afternoon of the 4th, local time, two Asian women aged 85 and 60 were attacked by a monster while waiting for a bus.
[Witness: It was a very big knife.
The handle was in the form of a knuckle to fit your fingers, and there was a hole in the blade.
It looks just like a military knife.]
Local media reported that both victims were seriously injured in the attack by a gunman shaking a military knife, and they were transferred to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery and then transferred to the intensive care unit.
[Witness: The victim turned his back toward me, and the feather inside the jumper burst out and was distracted. It was clear that he was hit by the knife.]
Witnesses also stated that the killer left the scene as if nothing had happened after the crime.
The police, who were reported and dispatched, found some of the weapons used in the crime at a nearby construction site, and after searching for about two hours based on photos taken by eyewitnesses, they arrested a man in his 50s from a distance of less than a kilometer.
[Local government officials: This incident is also one of the recent crimes against Asians in our society. It's the same pattern. It's a really disgusting and terrible crime.]
Police are investigating suspects for hate crimes against Asians.