Taipei Mourns Victims of Deadly Knife Attack

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Memorial walls have been set up at Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan’s commercial district after a deadly knife attack killed four people and injured nine last week.    One of those killed was 57-year-old Yu Chia-chang from Taoyuan City. He tried to stop the attacker at Taipei Main Station, but it cost him his life.    “I wanted to come remember him,” one memorial visitor told TaiwanPlus. “He saved a lot of people.”

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00:00Post-its and flowers can't replace what was lost here, but it can give some semblance

00:05of peace.

00:06Last week, a 27-year-old man named Zhang Wen carried out an attack here at Taipei Main

00:11Station.

00:12He threw out smoke grenades and killed one person.

00:15His victim was 57-year-old Yu Jia Zhang, a man from Taoyuan.

00:19Yu tried to stop Zhang's attack, but that cost him his life.

00:22Now Yu is being hailed as a hero, with many coming here to remember him for his bravery

00:27at a memorial at the scene of the attack.

00:30I want to worship him.

00:31I just feel that he is going to save a lot of people.

00:34Because if he has to stop him, it will not happen in the future of the more scary things.

00:40I am a local teacher.

00:43I just wanted to let my students know this and invite them to write a card.

00:49Then I brought them back together.

00:52Yu was not the only victim.

00:54After leaving Taipei Main Station, Zhang Wen resurfaced here at Taipei's busy Zhongshan

00:59commercial district about an hour later.

01:02Here he set off more smoke grenades before brandishing a large knife, slashing at people,

01:07killing two of them.

01:08The attack ultimately ended when Zhang Wen fell out of a six-floor shopping mall window

01:12while evading police.

01:13Here people have also erected a memorial to honor the victims.

01:16The victims' loved ones will receive compensation.

01:17Yu's family will get around $400,000.

01:21The other two will get less than that because of legal limitations.

01:26Taipei City government has also set up a fundraising platform where people can donate to victims.

01:31Meanwhile, Zhang Wen's parents have apologized for their son's actions, vowing to work with investigators.

01:36Taipei City government has also set up a fundraising platform where people can donate to victims.

01:41Meanwhile, Zhang Wen's parents have apologized for their son's actions, vowing to work with investigators.

01:47The killings have sent shockwaves throughout the country, at what is usually a

02:17joyful time of the year.

02:20As people in Taiwan come to terms with what happened, its people are coming together to

02:25remember those whose lives were lost and to give what support they can.

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