Police officer mistakenly kills woman she was sent to help

An Incheon police officer is under criminal investigation Friday for a fatal mistake she made while on duty, when she ran over a collapsed citizen she was sent to help.

Officials at the Incheon Michuhol Police Station said the officer in her 20s is accused of death resulting from a traffic accident.

The officer was dispatched after receiving a report that a woman in her 60s had collapsed and was lying in the road.

She ran over the woman with her patrol car at around 12:45 a.m., Friday.

The offic ...