Irishman who had disappeared while under quarantine found dead in Taipei from apparent suicide
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/04/09
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Scene of the incident. (Taipei Police Department photo)
The man, who was in his 50s, had arrived in Taiwan on a flight from Vietnam on March 17 and was told to begin a 14-day quarantine. However, when police followed up he had vacated his officially listed place of residence in Taipei's Xinyi District, reported SET News.
While police were searching for him, they received a report from a resident who found a hanged man's body on a hillside, next to a vegetable garden, at 7:37 a.m. on Wednesday morning, reported ETtoday. The preliminary assessment of officers at the scene was that he had hanged himself to death.
No suicide note was found at the scene, but the man's luggage was found lying near his body. Officials ruled out the possibility his death could have been caused by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). [FULL STORY]
