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Foreign Suspect ⁤Escapes from ‍Gwangju Gwangsan ⁤Police Station

Foreigners ‍flee from Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station and Naju Police⁢ Station in Jeollanam-do one after another

(Gwangju = Yonhap News) Reporter Cheon Jeong-in = A foreign suspect who was ‍taken⁤ to the police station on gambling charges escaped and is being pursued by the police.

According to the Gwangju Police Agency⁤ on the 31st, at around 1:15 am on this day, ⁤Mr. A, a Vietnamese national who was arrested‌ on suspicion of illegal gambling, ran ‍away from⁣ the⁣ entrance of the ‍Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station.

When ‌the district police officer‌ was about to put his arms ‍around Mr. A, who was in the ⁤police car, to⁢ get⁤ him out, he pushed the‍ police officer and ran away.

Mr. A ‌was a migrant worker whose visa to stay in the country had expired, and was in⁢ handcuffs‌ when⁣ he fled.

He escaped the police station through a passageway through which vehicles passed by avoiding the fence. ⁤It is presumed that he knew ‍the surrounding geography well, as he chose a blind spot in the closed-circuit (CCTV) ​TV and⁢ chose an escape ‍route.

The police are tracking Mr. A by identifying⁢ his expected escape route ⁣from those around him.

At 11:50 p.m. the previous ⁤day, Mr. A‍ was gambling with 10 male and female foreigners of the same nationality at a house in Songjeong-dong, ‌Gwangsan-gu,⁢ Gwangju, and was caught as a red-light criminal by the ⁤police who responded to a 112 call.

The‌ police arrested all 11 people at ⁤the gambling site and mobilized several patrol cars to transport them to Gwangsan Police Station.

Excluding Mr.⁣ A, the remaining 10⁢ people are‌ currently being investigated on gambling charges.

On June 11, 2022, the ‍Gwangsan Police Station experienced a situation where Vietnamese national suspects who had been arrested on⁣ gambling charges escaped during the basic investigation ⁤process.

At that time, 10 ⁢of the 23 suspects escaped through a narrow ⁢window while waiting in the district ‌conference ‍room ‍without surveillance cameras, and were all arrested within ‍a day.

The⁤ district unit that missed the suspect in front of the police station entrance on this day and the district​ unit ⁢where the mass escape occurred in 2022 are different government⁤ offices.

On the 16th, an illegal Thai citizen who ⁢was arrested as a suspect in ​an assault case ⁣at the Naju Police Station in Jeollanam-do ​was caught about 10 hours later after pushing a police officer and running away while ⁤getting out of a convoy vehicle.