Mentally-ill man apprehended for making hoax call warning of bomb at Seoul hotel
Social affairsApr 9, 2018
A man in his 30s suffering from mental illness was apprehended Monday after making a hoax call warning of an impending bomb explosion at a Seoul hotel, police said.The man, whose identity was withheld, made the call to police around 8:35 a.m., claiming he had planted an explosive at a Lotte Hotel and that it would go off 10 seconds later.The man didn't specify whether he was referring to the Lotte hotel in Sogong-dong in central Seoul or the Lotte establishment in Jamsil in southern Seoul. Polic