{"id":38448,"date":"2025-12-22T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38448"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:12:50","slug":"taiwan-boosts-security-after-deadly-taipei-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38448","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Boosts Security After Deadly Taipei Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taipei, Taiwan<\/strong> \u2013 Authorities across Taiwan have heightened security measures at transportation hubs following a shocking stabbing attack in Taipei that left three dead and eleven injured. The incident has sent ripples of concern throughout the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Police presence was visibly increased at major metro stations in the capital city early Monday. Law enforcement officials are actively investigating reported threats of similar attacks, including one incident involving a suspected bomb threat on the metro system.<\/p>\n<p>According to Taipei\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division Chief, Lo Chun-hong, police have received dozens of security threats since Friday&#8217;s attack. He emphasized that security has been significantly increased at transportation centers, New Year&#8217;s celebrations, concerts, and other large public gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>The increased security follows an attack on Friday in which a 27-year-old man, identified as Chang Wen, allegedly used a smoke bomb and a knife at a major train station before attacking several people in a nearby shopping district. <\/p>\n<p>Police reported that the attacker killed three individuals before falling to his death from a building. Eleven others sustained injuries during the rampage. <\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai stated that the suspected attacker had a prior criminal record and outstanding warrants. His residence had previously been searched by authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Violent crime is relatively rare in Taiwan. The last comparable incident occurred in 2014, when a man killed four people in a stabbing attack on the metro. <em>The investigation into the recent attack is ongoing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei, Taiwan \u2013 Authorities across Taiwan have heightened security measures at transportation hubs following a shocking stabbing attack in Taipei that left three dead and eleven injured. The incident has sent ripples of concern throughout the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Police presen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38450,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448\/revisions\/38450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}