A Kazakhstan national who fled the country after allegedly hitting a 7-year-old boy in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, with the vehicle he was driving was extradited to South Korea on Monday and handed over to Jinhae Police Station.
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The suspect, whose name is being withheld, is accused of a hit-and-run accident at around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 16, resulting in serious injuries to the victim. He fled to his home country via Uzbekistan the next morning.
He was an undocumented immigrant and did not have a driver’s license at the time of the accident, the police said.
An Interpol red notice was issued following a request by the Korean police. The suspect confessed to his crime after he was located.
By Choi Ji-won (
jwc@heraldcorp.com)