Woo Bum-kon incident

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The Woo Bum-kon incident (Korean: 우범곤 사건), also known as the Uiryeong shooting incident (의령 총기 사건) or Officer Woo incident (우 순경 사건), was a spree killing that occurred during the night from April 26 to April 27, 1982, in Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Policeman Woo Bum-kon murdered 56 people and wounded around 35 others in four villages using two stolen rifles and explosives. Woo killed himself in a suicide bombing with three hostages before a police response. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in South Korea’s history. In the aftermath of the attack, several high-profile South Korean politicians resigned or were suspended, and a commission was formed to assess the handling of the massacre by the police. In 2024, a memorial to the victims of the attack was established in Uiryeong. It remained the deadliest shooting spree carried out by a single perpetrator in modern history until it was surpassed by the 2011 Norway attacks, in which Anders Behring Breivik killed...

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