A 48-year-old man has been arrested after stabbing three people, including a 50-year-old man and two 11-year-old schoolgirls, in Miaoli, Taiwan, last Thursday (2 Oct) afternoon, according to Taipei Times.
The suspect, surnamed Chiu (transliterated from Chinese), had allegedly approached a group of children while under the influence of drugs, with a knife tied to his right hand.
Source: ETtoday
Surveillance footage showed that a woman had warned the children to leave, but some, including the two girls, could not flee in time.
One of the girls, surnamed Ting, sustained a 3–4cm stab wound to her left chest, resulting in a hemothorax.
She received emergency treatment at Miaoli Hospital before being transferred to the Children’s Hospital at China Medical University.
Source: Knews
Ting reportedly underwent surgery to repair damaged blood vessels and is now stable in the ICU, reports Taiwanese news outlet ETtoday.
The second girl, surnamed Hsu, sustained a shallow chest wound and a laceration on her right elbow. A 50-year-old man, surnamed Lin, was hospitalised after getting stabbed in the abdomen and back.
Police said Chiu resisted arrest initially but was eventually subdued with a stun gun and taken into custody.
The 48-year-old had served eight years in prison for another stabbing incident in Dec 2015 and was released in March this year.
Miaoli County Commissioner Chung Tung-Chin noted that Chiu has “mental health problems” and should not have been released if he posed a risk of relapse.
Source: Taipei Times
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Featured image adapted from ETtoday and Taipei Times.