Taipei police inspected a crime scene near MRT Zhongshan Station after a man allegedly stabbed seven people, leaving three seriously injured, following his reported throwing of a smoke grenade at MRT Taipei Main Station around 5 p.m. Friday, according to a Focus Taiwan report issued in the 29-minute window ending at 4:16 p.m. UTC. An eyewitness posted on X from latlonging that they were present during a mass casualty attack around Zhongshan Station where a man stabbed several people, as shared in the same reporting window. This follows prior reports of the Friday evening attacks beginning at 5:27 p.m. local time at Taipei Main Station's M7 exit, where suspect Zhang Wen, 27, used smoke bombs and a knife before falling to his death, according to TVBS and earlier updates, with the death toll reaching four including the suspect and six seriously injured per a Chinese news report before 3:47 p.m. UTC.
