TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese authorities mentioned Saturday the suspect who killed three folks and injured 11 others in knife and smoke grenade assaults within the island’s capital had deliberate the assaults and set fires at two different areas earlier within the day.
The suspect, recognized as a 27-year-old man named Chang Wen, fell to his demise from a division retailer constructing in Taipei after the assault on Friday.
The assaults shocked Taiwan, the place violent crime is uncommon, prompting authorities to step up safety at crowded spots and large occasions, together with its New 12 months’s Eve celebration that normally attracts many locals and vacationers to an outside countdown.
Chang Jung-Hsin, director-general of the Nationwide Police Company, mentioned the suspect started a sequence of assaults at 3:40 p.m. native time, first setting fireplace to roads and inflicting injury to vehicles and motorbikes. He additionally set fireplace to the place he lived.
The suspect later threw smoke grenades close to two exits of the Taipei Primary metro station and used a knife to fatally wound an individual, Chang mentioned. After the assault, the suspect took an underground path to return to the resort the place he was staying. Then he threw extra smoke grenades and used his knife to kill one other individual outdoors the Eslite Spectrum Nanxi division retailer, the official mentioned.
He additionally fatally wounded one other individual on the fourth flooring of the division retailer constructing earlier than he jumped from a male lavatory on the fifth flooring to his demise, Chang mentioned.
