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Taiwanese authorities said connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) the fishy who killed 3 radical and injured 11 others successful weapon and fume grenade attacks successful the island's superior had planned the assaults and acceptable fires astatine 2 different locations earlier successful the day.
The suspect, identified arsenic a 27-year-old antheral named Chang Wen, fell to his decease from a section store gathering successful Taipei aft the onslaught connected Friday (December 19, 2025).
The assaults shocked Taiwan, wherever convulsive transgression is rare, prompting authorities to measurement up information astatine crowded spots and large events, including its New Year's Eve solemnisation that usually attracts galore locals and tourists to an outdoor countdown.
Chang Jung-Hsin, director-general of the National Police Agency, said the fishy began a bid of attacks astatine 3:40 p.m. section time, archetypal mounting occurrence to roads and causing harm to cars and motorbikes. He besides acceptable occurrence to wherever helium lived.
The fishy aboriginal threw fume grenades adjacent 2 exits of the Taipei Main metro presumption and utilized a weapon to fatally coiled a person, Mr. Chang said. After the attack, the fishy took an underground way to instrumentality to the edifice wherever helium was staying. Then, helium threw much fume grenades and utilized his weapon to termination different idiosyncratic extracurricular the Eslite Spectrum Nanxi section store, the authoritative said.
He besides fatally wounded different idiosyncratic connected the 4th level of the section store gathering earlier helium jumped from a antheral bath connected the 5th level to his death, Mr. Chang said.
