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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 85-year-old and 60-year-old Asian women were attacked by a monster while waiting for the 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 two victims were severely injured in the attack by a gangster shaking a military knife, and both 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 a part of the weapon used in the crime at a nearby construction site, and after searching for about two hours based on photos taken by witnesses, 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.] The
police are investigating the suspect for a hate crime against Asians.