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Police plan to consider from multiple angles whether to seek a warrant for the suspect in Monday’s deadly vehicle plowing of pedestrians near Seoul City Hall that killed nine people and injured six others.
At a press briefing on Tuesday, an official at the Seoul Namdaemun Police Station said the pretrial detention warrant for the suspect on charges of causing death or injury by gross negligence will be considered through a strict and precise investigation.
While the police declined to provide further details on the identity of the suspect, who is reported to be in his late 60s, KBS has learned that he had worked as a bus driver in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, and has held a temporary bus driving job in the city post-retirement.
The police are expected to request a forensic identification of the suspect’s vehicle, adding that allegation of a sudden unintended acceleration is currently only from the suspect’s testimony.
An official at the police station said no alcohol was detected from the suspect’s sobriety test conducted at the scene and he had tested negative in a simple drug test.
