TAIPEI: Attacks at two metro station in Taipei on Friday injured at least eight people, including three who suffered cardiac arrest, Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai said.
Cho said a suspect in the attacks, which involved smoke bombs and stabbing, had fallen off a building and was also in a state of cardiac arrest.
The motive was not immediately clear, but Cho said in a statement it was “a deliberate act.”
The premier separately told reporters that “three people in the two locations are currently in a state of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and another five people have suffered injuries from stab wounds and blunt force trauma to various parts of their bodies.”
In his statement, Cho said that the suspect wore a mask and threw “five or six gasoline bombs or smoke grenades” at Taipei Main Station metro.
Authorities said they were ramping up security across the island in response to the attacks.
“Currently, all important locations... including railway stations, highways, subway stations and airports are maintaining a high level of alert and vigilance,” Cho said.
Taipei metro attacks injure eight people: Taiwan premier
https://arab.news/8fr79
Taipei metro attacks injure eight people: Taiwan premier
- The motive was not immediately clear, but Cho said in a statement it was “a deliberate act“
- The suspect wore a mask and threw “five or six gasoline bombs or smoke grenades“
Nearly 540 migrants rescued off Crete
- Under standard EU procedure, all will undergo health checks before having their asylum claims processed
ATHENS: Nearly 540 migrants crammed on a sailing boat were rescued on Friday south of the island of Crete, the Greek Coast
Guard said.
The 539 would-be asylum seekers were rescued by a patrol vessel of EU border agency Frontex near the small island of Gavdos in the Libyan Sea, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said.
So far, the Coast Guard has recorded nationals from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, and the Palestinian territories aboard the boat, the spokeswoman said.
BACKGROUND
The 539 would-be asylum seekers will first be taken to the Cretan city of Rethymno.
They will first be taken to the Cretan city of Rethymno, she added.
Under standard EU procedure, all will undergo health checks before having their asylum claims processed.
The port they had sailed out from was not immediately clear, the spokeswoman said.
Migrants have been trying to reach Crete from Libya for the last year, as a way of entering the EU.
