An 11-year-old girl who was stabbed in Miaoli City in a knife attack on Thursday was in stable condition in an intensive care unit after undergoing surgery for collapsed lungs and internal bleeding, doctors said yesterday.
The girl, surnamed Ting (丁), was stabbed in the left side of her chest and underwent surgery on Thursday night, after which her breathing and blood pressure normalized, China Medical University Hospital said in a statement.
Two others were injured in the incident. Another 11-year-old girl, surnamed Hsu (徐), sustained cuts, while a 50-year-old man surnamed Lin (林) was stabbed in the back and abdomen.
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In a post on Threads, Lin’s daughter said that her father was a bystander who tried to protect the injured girls.
He was admitted into intensive care at Da Chien General Hospital, the daughter said.
The Miaoli County Police Bureau said that the incident occurred on Thursday at 3:40pm in front of a convenience store near Jiangong Elementary School.
A 48-year-old male suspect, surnamed Chiu (邱), was seen loitering nearby before he started attacking people, seemingly at random, eyewitnesses said.
Chiu was arrested at his home in Miaoli at 4:35pm after police tracked the scooter he departed on, the bureau said.
Chou Wen-cheng (周文正), the warden of Miaoli City’s Shangmiao Borough (上苗), said that the incident occurred across from his office.
He said that he saw a teacher from a nearby cram school carrying Ting, calling for help and shouting: “Murder! He killed several people.”
The girls are sixth-grade students from different classes at the same elementary school. They were headed to the cram school when they were attacked.
Chiu had been in prison for eight years until March after being convicted of stabbing four people, all of whom survived, while under the influence of drugs, police said.
Police were trying to determine a motive in the latest attack and whether the suspect was under the influence of drugs.
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