2024-11-10

A woman who allegedly attacked a high school student with a utility knife, injuring his face, on a Taipei subway train Friday evening, has been transferred to the prosecutor, police announced yesterday. The incident occurred near Xinpu MRT station at around 10:17 p.m. on a Bannan Line train heading to Dingpu, New Taipei City police said. Before the police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman named Wang (王) in her forties, she had already been overpowered by four male passengers, one of whom was a police officer from Taipei on leave, police said. The 17-year-old student, who suffered a cut of approximately