Demand for pepper spray, expandable batons and whistles is soaring amid growing safety concerns arising from back-to-back stabbing rampages and the ensuing online threats of copycat crimes, data showed Sunday.
Seoul police have apprehended three more people suspected of threatening to commit copycat crimes in Seoul following a recent stabbing rampage on the outskirts of the capital, officials said Saturday. They were detained Friday as police vowed to step up vigilance after 14 people were wounded Thursday when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and attacked people with a knife at a department store in Seongnam, south of S.