Police Consider Applying 'Murder Charge' to Suspect in 'Saengsubyung Incident' Following Death of Victim Employee

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jung-yoon] The police are considering changing the charge against the suspect in an incident where two employees at a company in Seocho-gu, Seoul, lost consciousness after drinking water from bottled water from aggravated injury to murder.

According to the police on the 24th, the Seocho Police Station in Seoul requested an autopsy from the National Forensic Service after a male employee who was in a coma and hospitalized in the intensive care unit among the male and female employees who drank the bottled water died yesterday afternoon.

The police plan to change the charge against suspect A to murder if the autopsy results reveal that the poison found in the male employee's blood was the direct cause of death.

Suspect A was an employee of the company and had come to work normally on the 18th, the day the incident occurred, but was absent without leave the next day and was found dead at home after drinking poison. At the same company, on the 10th, another incident occurred where A and another employee who had previously lived together in company housing collapsed after drinking a beverage but recovered after treatment. The poison they drank was identified as the same type as the poison found at A's home.

A police official said, "We are continuing to investigate people around the suspect and confirming the circumstances of the poison purchase."

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