Taiwan English News
Date: June 6, 2019 
By: Phillip Charlier  

The 75-year-old wife of a deputy director of a hospital in Kaohsiung City was beaten up by a thug last Friday, but the incident was not related to a hospital board election she was about to attend, a suspect told police after his arrest, Tuesday, June 4.

At around 8:00am, Friday, May 31, Kaohsiung City police received a report from eyewitnesses that an elderly woman had been beaten up by a man dressed in black in a carpark in Lingya District.

According to reports including China Times, the man approached the woman and asked, “Are you Mrs Ruan (阮)?”

After Mrs Ruan replied, “yes,” the man then assailed her with a weapon described as “a wooden stick”, by China Times, and “an iron bar,” by Apple Daily.    [FULL  STORY]