A man has been arrested in central Taiwan after assaulting a passenger and drawing a knife on a high speed train. Railway police say he could face up to two years in prison for public intimidation.
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00:00Panic on Taiwan's high-speed rail, after a man took out a knife and stabbed it into
00:05a tray table.
00:07Railway police say the man was sitting on the floor, blocking the entrance to a train
00:10car.
00:11He became upset after a woman stepped over him to enter the car, and later went over
00:15and punched her.
00:17When other passengers jumped up to help, the man pulled out a knife from his backpack.
00:30Railway police say the suspect got off the train in Taipei and fled.
00:36Police tracked him down and arrested him in central Taiwan a day later.
00:40He apologized over the incident.
00:46Railway police say he could face up to two years in prison for public intimidation.
00:51This is just the latest case of people pulling out knives on public transportation in Taiwan
00:55this year.
00:56Earlier this month, a woman attacked a high school student with a knife on the Taipei
00:59MRT, and in May, a man stabbed two people on the Taichung MRT.
01:04Some members of the public say the latest incident has worried them.
01:15Railway police say they have begun to step up their presence across Taiwan's rail network,
01:19patrolling train cars for any suspicious activity, and working with Taiwan's high-speed rail
01:24company to increase its own security personnel, aiming to reassure passengers of their safety.
01:30John Su and Keans Karanta for Taiwan Plus.