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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maroosha Muzaffar

Taiwan metro attacker’s parents apologise for their son’s actions

The parents of the man accused of carrying out last week’s fatal stabbing attack in Taipei appeared in public on Tuesday to apologise.

Outside a funeral parlour where an autopsy on their son had just been completed, the parents of 27-year-old Chang Wen knelt before television cameras and bowed repeatedly. They apologised to the public and to the families of those who were killed or injured in the attack.

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