3 killed, 9 injured in Taiwan knife, grenade attack; suspect dead

TAIPEI – 19 December 2025: At least three people were killed and nine others injured, including one in serious condition, in a knife and smoke grenade attack in Taiwan’s capital on Friday evening, authorities and local news reports said.

The suspect was hospitalized after falling from a department store building and later pronounced dead.

The attacker, identified as a man in his twenties, threw a smoke grenade near an underground exit of Taipei Main subway station, close to the city’s main train station.

He then moved to the nearby Eslite department store in a popular shopping district, stabbing multiple people, mostly in the neck, according to local media reports citing police.