TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for detonating a pipe bomb on a busy Taipei train that injured more than two dozen people last year. The explosion injured 24 people when it tore through the train as it pulled into a station. “The defendant detonated the explosive device with the goal of committing suicide, as well as taking his revenge on society by means of killing innocent people. His motive was malicious,” a court statement said. But Lin believed that “society should be responsible for him”, the court statement said.

Source: Manila Times February 22, 2017 06:45 UTC