NEW TAIPEI — 2014 · Major Tragedy
The Taipei Metro Stabbing
On the afternoon of 21 May 2014, on a Taipei Metro Bannan Line train travelling between Longshan Temple and Jiangzicui stations, a 21-year-old university student attacked passengers with a knife. Four people were killed and 24 injured. The attacker was subdued by passengers and police at Jiangzicui station. It was the first fatal attack on the Taipei Metro since it opened in 1996, and it led to tighter public transport security in Taiwan. The attacker, Cheng Chieh, was sentenced to death at all three levels of court in 2015 and executed on 10 May 2016.
- Date
- 2014
- Place
- Banqiao, New Taipei, Taiwan, New Taipei, TW
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- 25.0300, 121.4700 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 21 May 2014Attack on a Bannan Line train: 4 dead, 24 injured.
- 21 May 2014The attacker was detained at Jiangzicui station.
- 2015The courts imposed and confirmed a death sentence.
- 10 May 2016The attacker was executed.
Sources
- Taipei Times — MRT killer executed taipeitimes.com ↗
- Wikipedia — 2014 Taipei Metro attack en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Taipei Times
- Wikipedia
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