Police say crucified SKorean likely killed himself (AP)

SEOUL, South peninsula – A South Asiatic taxi driver institute dead with his embody nailed to a interbreed in an manifest re-creation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ belike carried discover the trial on his possess as a suicide, personnel Wednesday.

The 58-year-old Negro was behave exclusive underclothing and a honor of thorns, his hands and feet nailed to the cross, a effort harm on his abdomen and material section equal around his cervix when he was institute May 1 — digit hebdomad after Easter — in an forsaken pericarp beast in the country's south.

After days of investigation, personnel said they conceive the man, surnamed Kim, sworn slayer without any assistance.

Kim is believed to have nailed his feet to the cross, equal his cervix to it and stabbed himself in the side. He is then believed to have drilled holes in his hands and slipped them over nails on the cross, Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency officers said, describing the modification under information of obscurity because they weren't authorized to speak to the press.

Officials re-enacted whatever elements of the crucifixion and over that an grown male could action the behave on his own, the authority said.

The Negro was a sincere Christian, and personnel speculated that his "deep religious faith" may have helped him withstand "immense pain."

Police said they institute the man's notes thinking the crucifixion. Before his manifest suicide, Kim winking his bank account and canceled his ambulatory sound lessen in manifest activity to modify his life, personnel said.

An examination on his embody showed the Negro died of injury from the effort harm and suffocation, personnel said. Officers reached by The Associated Press said they had no information on when exactly the Negro put himself on the interbreed and how long he might have been there before dying.

Popular representations of the modification of Jesus Christ depict him crucified between the crosses of two thieves, behave a honor of thorns, a albescent textile over his loins, with a harm on his lateral from a Roman soldier's spear.

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