Police officers are under investigation after they failed to confirm that a drunken man in his 60s had entered indoors during a cold wave and left the scene, resulting in his death.
On the 30th, the Gangbuk Police Station in Seoul announced that Sergeant A and Corporal B, members of the Mia Police Substation, were booked without detention on charges of professional negligence causing death. They responded to a report of an intoxicated person in the early morning of November 30 last year and took Mr. C, a man in his 60s who was intoxicated, to the front of a multi-family house located in Suyu 1-dong, Gangbuk-gu, his registered address, around 1 a.m.
However, it was reported that they left the scene without confirming that Mr. C had entered indoors. The lowest temperature in Seoul that day was -8.1 degrees Celsius. Mr. C, who was left unattended for over six hours, was found dead around 7 a.m. The police are investigating the specific circumstances of the incident.
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