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Police said a 55-year-old man fatally stabbed two men, including an ethnic Korean from China, and wounded another on Tuesday in Jinju, a southern city.

The suspect committed the crimes around 6:30 a.m. at a recruitment office for construction jobs. He is known to have walked into the office with a knife that he allegedly stole the day before from a store in an open-air market.

Police nabbed the suspect 300 meters from the office.

The man kept rambling to police, saying, “The dead are with a Chinese gang,” and, “They will kidnap all of the Korean women.”

A police source said, “Jeon apparently stole a knife yesterday afternoon and planned the crime because of a grudge he had against a Chinese worker who’d been getting work from the recruitment office for the past four months.”

The suspect is not believed to have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and whether he has a mental disorder has not been determined.

Witnesses said the two dead men, one of them Korean Chinese, were stabbed in the back, neck and chest inside the office, adding that the surviving victim was attacked outside the office.

The suspect is known to have divorced two years ago and moved down to Jinju from Suwon about one year ago.