Man convicted in South Korea over fatal car and stabbing rampage

A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder on Thursday for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year.

Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Choi Won-jong, 23, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a bustling leisure district in Seongnam and then stepped out of the crashed vehicle and stabbed people at random at a nearby shopping centre.