Taipei Metro massacre

mass stabbing spree on 21 May 2014 on a Taipei Metro train near Jiangzicui Station, resulting in 4 deaths and 24 injuries, whose suspect, Cheng Chieh, then 21, was arrested after the attack, sentenced to death, and executed on 10 May 2016
Event mass_murder Q16915197
Taipei Metro massacre
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Summary

Taipei Metro massacre is a mass murder[1]. It draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (mass_murder category, ranking #79 of 157).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taipei Metro massacre is in the country of Taiwan[3].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's video is recorded as News conference of MOJ (Taiwan) about execution of Cheng Chieh's capital punishment.webm[4].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's image is recorded as Cenotaph Screen Shot of Taipei Metro Banqiao Line Attack 7th Days 20140527.jpg[5].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's image is recorded as 2014 Taipei Metro attack tribute.jpg[6].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's instance of is recorded as mass murder[7].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's instance of is recorded as mass stabbing[8].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's location is recorded as New Taipei[9].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's Commons category is recorded as 2014 Taipei Metro Banqiao Line Attack[10].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+08:00[11].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's armament is recorded as knife[12].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's point in time is recorded as +2014-05-21T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 25.035, 'lon': 121.47694444444444}[14].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/010phbpl[15].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+4'}[16].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+24'}[17].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's number of perpetrators is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[18].
  • Taipei Metro massacre's perpetrator is recorded as Cheng Chieh[19].

Why It Matters

Taipei Metro massacre draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (mass_murder category, ranking #79 of 157).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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