The island’s Ministry of the Interior and National Police Agency (NPA) ordered tighter deployments at transport hubs and major events, increased monitoring of online threats and accelerated reviews of police resources and command procedures.
Announced in separate statements on Tuesday, the measures came after last week’s violence triggered a surge of public anxiety and a wave of threatening and copycat posts on social media.
Police said Chang began his rampage at about 3.40pm by setting fires along roads, damaging cars and motorbikes, before torching the flat where he lived. About an hour later, he used smoke devices to create confusion near two exits of Taipei Main Station and carried out knife attacks in crowded public areas inside the station and a nearby department store.
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Three people were killed and 11 injured, police said. Chang later died after falling from a building. Prosecutors said the motive behind his indiscriminate violence was still under investigation.
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