Week 2--MRT attacker kills 4 people, injures 22

MRT attacker kills 4 people, injures 22

Thu, May 22, 2014

By Stacy Hsu  /  Staff writer, with CNA

A 21-year-old student  allegedly killed four people and injured 22 yesterday in a random killing spree on a train of the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system’s Bannan Line.

The four victims were a 47-year-old woman, a 62-year-old woman and two men aged 20 and 30. They had reportedly lost all vital signs before they were rushed to the New Taipei City Hospital’s Banciao Branch, the Taipei Hospital and the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital respectively.

It was the first deadly attack on an MRT train since the Taipei commuter rail system went into commercial service in 1996.

The suspect, who has been identified as Cheng Chieh (鄭捷) from Greater Taichung’s Tunghai University, allegedly started attacking passengers around him with a 30cm-long fruit knife while the train was traveling between the Longshan Temple Station and the Jiangzicui Station at approximately 4:26pm.

He was apprehended by security guards, police officers and other passengers shortly after the train stopped at the Jiangzicui Station, from where he was taken to the Jiangzicui police station for questioning.

According to New Taipei City Police Department Director-General Chen Kuo-en (陳國恩), Cheng boarded an MRT train heading to the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center at the Jiangzicui Station earlier in the afternoon and alighted at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station.

He subsequently hopped on the ill-fated train heading to the Banciao Station before carrying out the killing spree, Chen added.

“The suspect told us that he had since elementary school wanted to ‘do something big’ and that he had shared the idea with some of his high-school and college classmates,” Chen said.

Chen said Cheng originally planned to execute the idea after he graduated from university, but decided to move it forward to yesterday after giving it some thought last week.

“He bought two fruit knives of different sizes from a supermarket before he boarded the trains… His blood-alcohol content registered 0.04mg/L and he has no medical records of mental illness,” Chen said.

“He showed no signs of remorse during questioning,” Chen added.

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) said that for the next two weeks, the city government planned to deploy 80 special police officers to MRT stations to conduct routine patrols, to assist the 143 MRT police officers.

“Our priority is to restore order and security at MRT stations to make sure that our passengers do not feel afraid when taking the metro,” Hau said.

New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said the city government had instructed all available police officers to patrol the areas surrounding the city’s 34 MRT stations shortly after the incident, in an effort to tighten security.

Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (台北捷運公司) general manager Tan Gwa-guang (譚國光) said the company would give NT$4 million (US$132,000) in compensation to the families of the victims and would take care of all medical expenses incurred by the injured passengers.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/05/22/2003590929

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-A 21-year-old student,people

   WHEN-yesterday

   WHAT-a random killing

   WHY-not given

   WHERE-on a train of the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system’s Bannan Line

   HOW-not given

Keywords：

   1.  injured：受傷

   2. rush：趕緊

   3. respectively：分別

   4. suspect：嫌疑

   5.apprehended：拘押

   6. patrols：巡邏

   7. priority：優先

   8. metro：地鐵

   9.  execute：執行

  10. incurred：招致

Week 1--Boston bomb suspect captured

Boston bomb suspect captured

By Jay Lindsay and Eileen Sullivan ,AP
April 21, 2013, 12:05 am TWN

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts -- Police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and the Boston area sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.

The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — taken alive, though seriously wounded — lifted days of anxiety for Boston and Americans everywhere, but little was known about the motivation of the ethnic Chechen brothers.

President Barack Obama vowed investigators would solve that mystery. “The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers,” said Obama, who branded the suspects “terrorists.”

During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said.

Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old university student holed up in the boat. He was weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.

Tsarnaev was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.

Boston police announced via Twitter that Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote: “CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.

The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.

The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing.

Obama said the capture closed “an important chapter in this tragedy,” but he said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.

“When a tragedy like this happens, with public safety at risk and the stakes so high, it's important that we do this right,” he said. “That's why we take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals, certainly not about entire groups of people.”

The breakthrough came when a man in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called authorities and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.

“He was not communicative,” Davis said.

Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire — the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2013/04/21/376648/Boston-bomb.htm

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-Police,Boston Marathon bombing suspect

   WHAT-Boston Marathon bombing

   WHY-to capture the suspect

   WHERE-WATERTOWN, Massachusetts

   HOW-a wild car chase and gun battle

Keywords：

   1.  suspect:涉嫌人

   2. capture:捕獲

   3. motivations:動機

   4.investigator:調查者

   5. individuals:個人

   6. communicative:交際

   7. explosive:爆炸物

   8.  terror:恐怖

    9. wounded:受傷的

  10. bombing:轟炸