Three Killed in Stabbing Attack in Taiwan

Three people were killed and at least six others were injured on Friday in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, when a man threw smoke grenades in a crowded train station and lunged at bystanders with a large knife. The assailant later died after fleeing and then falling or jumping from a building, the police said.

Premier Cho said that it would take time to establish the man’s motives for his attack. Investigators in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, later said he appeared to come from Taoyuan and had been being sought for evading military service, according to Wu Yi-ming, a spokesman for the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Taipei.

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