New Taipei City firefighters on Friday saved a man who was chased and assaulted by a group of knife-wielding attackers.
According to a police report, the victim, surnamed Tsai (蔡), met his friends that night at the Holiday KTV (好樂迪) in Lujhou (蘆洲), where they sang and partied until early yesterday morning, when an argument broke out between Tsai’s friends and another group of men.
When Tsai left the premise, the other group, seeing that he was alone, followed him, police said.
Tsai hurriedly got on his motorbike, and the group of about 20 people, also on motorcycles, chased after him, police said.
Desperate, Tsai drove straight to the Lujhou Fire Department to ask for help.
“I saw this man on a motorcycle driving straight to our front entrance. There were several motorcycles chasing after him, with some of the riders holding knives. The man ran inside the fire department, and the attackers ran after him and assaulted him. One attacker swung a motorcycle helmet and struck the victim’s head,” an on-duty firefighter said. “Only when the firefighters came forward and shouted at them did the attackers stop the vicious assault.”
The firefighters helped bandage Tsai’s wounds as they waited for the ambulance to arrive. Tsai was apparently slashed on both arms by his attackers during the chase, they said.
A spokesperson at the Lujhou Police Precinct said that investigators were on the case. After going through street surveillance videos to identify the motorcycle plate numbers, seven suspects from the city’s Sanchong District (三重) were brought in for questioning.
The nation has been on alert over gang attacks since the high-profile killing of a police detective at a Taipei night club on Sept. 14.
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