Around noon on the 29th, a woman in her 30s was fatally stabbed near an apartment in the Goejeong-dong area of Seogu, Daejeon.
A man in his 20s, suspected to be the assailant, fled the scene after killing the woman.
Police suspect that the man, referred to as A, targeted the woman he had been dating and are investigating the case. They are tracking A's whereabouts by securing surrounding closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage.
According to police, around noon that day, a post office worker who witnessed the stabbing reported to emergency services that "a man stabbed a woman." The 119 paramedics, dispatched after receiving a request for assistance from the 112 situation room, transported the woman, who was in cardiac arrest, to the hospital, but she died.