The New Taipei City District Court has approved a motion by prosecutors to detain a woman who attacked a senior-high school student with a knife on a Taipei Metro train late on Friday.
The court in a statement issued on Saturday said that she would be detained on suspicion of attempted murder and the possibility that she could harm others or attempt to flee.
New Taipei City police said the incident occurred near MRT Xinpu Station at about 10:17pm on Friday, when a passenger was injured on a Bannan Line train heading toward Dingpu.
Photo: Chen Wei-tzu, Taipei Times
Before police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman surnamed Wang (王) who is in her early 40s, she had already been subdued by four male passengers, one of whom was an off-duty Taipei police officer, police said.
The injured student, who sustained a cut of about 3cm on his face, was taken to Far Eastern Memorial Hospital for treatment and is in a stable condition after being bandaged by emergency medical personnel at the scene, police said.
The 17-year-old student said he did not know Wang, police said, adding Wang’s family requested that the suspect be charged with attempted murder.
Witnesses wrote on social media that many people were screaming, running and falling in the train car during the attack, making the scene “resemble a zombie movie.”
Wang is a repeat offender who had previously been involved in arguments at MRT stations, Chinese-language newspaper United Daily News said.
She reportedly experienced auditory hallucinations and allegedly attacked the student after suspecting that he had spoken ill of her, the newspaper said.
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