07 July 2016•Update: 08 July 2016
By Mahmut Atanur
BEIJING
An explosion on a commuter train has injured at least 24 people -- some of them seriously -- in Taiwan.
Taiwan’s police agency director, Gen. Chen Kuo-en, was quoted by the official Central News Agency as saying late Thursday that a 15-20 centimeter explosive resembling a firecracker is suspected to have caused the blast in Taipei.
Cabinet spokesman Tung Chen-yuan said that Prime Minister Lin Chuan ordered relevant government agencies to investigate the explosion and provide assistance to the victims of the incident, in which flames engulfed a coach on the train.
The agency cited local reports quoting a witness who said that the explosion occurred shortly after a man walked into a coach where he left a "black, long-shaped object" before departing.
