A man with a knife and a smoke grenade attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan’s capital on Friday evening, killing at least three people and injuring nine others, according to the national news agency and the city government.
The suspect later fell to his death from a department store building.
Police said that the suspect was declared dead at a hospital after jumping from the building’s sixth floor, the Central News Agency reported.
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The suspect, identified as a 27-year-old man named Chang Wen, threw a smoke grenade near an underground exit of the Taipei Main subway station, close to the city’s main railway station, sending pedestrians running, according to local media reports.
He then headed north to a popular shopping district, where he stabbed multiple people on the first and fourth floors of the Eslite department store, primarily in the neck, the news agency said, citing police.
Local hospitals reported three deaths from the attacks. The city government said nine others were hospitalised, including one with serious injuries.
