When he stopped trying to rape, he wielded a weapon...an active-duty soldier's arrest

The Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an active-duty soldier in his 20s on charges of wielding a weapon while trying to rape a woman he didn't know.

Mr. A is accused of wielding a weapon to hurt a woman when he tried to rape a woman in the women's bathroom of a building in Jung-gu, Daejeon, at around 3:30 p.m. on the 8th.

A, who was arrested by police near the roof of an apartment building near the scene of the incident, was found to have committed the crime on the day of his return to the unit.

The victim, who suffered a head injury, was operated on at a hospital and is not known to be life-threatening.