South Korean army soldiers take part in an operation to capture an armed deserter in an east coast hillside near the inter-Korean border in Goseong, Gangwon Province, South Korea, 23 June 2014. -EPA
SEOUL: A South Korean military conscript who killed five members of his unit near the border with North Korea was captured Monday after wounding himself following a 24-hour standoff with thousands of troops.
Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok said the 22-year-old sergeant, who was cornered in a small forested area 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the heavily militarised border, had shot himself in the side and had been taken to hospital.
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