Man Sentenced to Life for Deadly Subway Fire
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From Times Wire Reports
A man who started a subway fire in South Korea that killed 198 people was sentenced to life in prison.
Kim Dae Han, 56, started the Feb. 18 blaze by igniting a carton filled with gasoline inside a subway train in Taegu, the country’s third-largest city. The Taegu District Court convicted him of arson and homicide.
Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty, but the court gave Kim a life sentence, saying he was repentant and appeared to have been mentally unstable when he committed the crime.
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