Daegu subway fire

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Daegu subway fire
Firemen inspect the wreckage of a train car post-fire
Location	Jungangno station, Daegu, South Korea
Date	February 18, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-02-18) 9:53 a.m. (KST)
Target	Daegu Metropolitan Subway
Attack type	Arson, mass murder, attempted suicide attack
Weapons	Two milk cartons filled with a flammable liquid
Deaths	192
Injured	151+ (including the perpetrator)
Perpetrator	Kim Dae-han
Verdict	Life imprisonment
Convictions	Homicide (192 counts) Arson

On February 18, 2003, an arsonist set fire to a Daegu Metro subway train as it arrived at Jungangno station in central Daegu, South Korea. The resulting blaze, which spread when a second train stopped at the same station, killed 192 people and injured another 151. It remains the deadliest loss of life in a single deliberate incident in South Korean peacetime history, surpassing the 1982 shooting rampage committed by Woo Bum-kon.