{"id":21780,"date":"2025-12-21T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21780"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:15:36","slug":"mothershipsg-the-man-identified-as-chang-wen-allegedly-threw-smoke-bombs-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21780","title":{"rendered":"@mothershipsg The man, identified as Chang Wen, allegedly threw smoke bombs near&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Chang Wen, allegedly threw smoke bombs near Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan Station before attacking passers-by with a knife near the Eslite Spectrum Nanxi building.  He later fled during a police chase and reportedly fell from the building, where he was pronounced dead at 7:42pm, TVBS World Taiwan reported. His motive remains unclear. Authorities said Chang had a criminal record and was wanted for evading military service. He also allegedly set fire to his apartment, car and two motorcycles, and 25 Molotov cocktails were found in a hotel room he had stayed in.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7585770066835229456?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7585770031666121992\" data-video-id=\"7585770031666121992\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Chang Wen, allegedly threw smoke bombs near Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan Station before attacking passers-by with a knife near the Eslite Spectrum Nanxi building.  He later fled during a police chase and reportedly fell from the building, where he was pronounced dead at 7:42pm, TVBS World Taiwan reported. His motive remains unclear. Authorities said Chang had a criminal record and was wanted for evading military service. He also allegedly set fire to his apartment, car and two motorcycles, and 25 Molotov cocktails were found in a hotel room he had stayed in.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7585770066835229456?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tap Video and \ud83d\udd08 To Unmute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7585770031666121992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok <\/a> Credits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@mothershipsg The man, identified as Chang Wen, allegedly threw smoke bombs near Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan Station before attacking passers-by with a knife near&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1635,3874,2781,13748,140,1024,13750,4485,13749,9867],"class_list":["post-21780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-allegedly","tag-bombs","tag-chang","tag-identified","tag-man","tag-mothershipsg","tag-near","tag-smoke","tag-threw","tag-wen","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}