Taiwan English News
December 14, 2019
By: Phillip Charlier
At around 1:00pm Thursday, December 12, a suspicious bag, containing around four liters of liquid in two bottles, a quantity of white powder, wires, and a possible detonator or timer, was spotted against a wall of the Kuomintang (KMT/Chinese Nationalist Party) headquarters in Houbi District, Tainan City.
After a preliminary inspection, it was suspected that the device contained triacetone triacetate (TATP), an explosive compound previously used in terrorist attacks in London, Brussels, and Paris, and which terrorists have nicknamed ‘Mother of Satan’.
A suspected explosive device covered by a bomb-suppression blanket in Tainan City, Thursday, December 12.
After a police disposal unit was dispatched to deal with the device, an investigation began that led police to a suspect named Wu, who was seen on security monitor footage, planting the suspicious device at around 5:00am that morning. [FULL STORY]