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TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has apologized to the family of a Malaysian student who was found murdered in southern Taiwan on Thursday, the Taiwan Central News Agency reported.
“The President expressed her deepest apologies to the student’s family and the people of Malaysia,” according to Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang.
The incident has seriously tarnished Taiwan’s image as a safe and friendly nation, and exposed problems in Taiwanese society that must be thoroughly reviewed to ensure such a tragedy does not happen again, Tsai said during a national security meeting. senior in Taipei. .
Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang also extended his apologies on behalf of the government, noting that it has instructed the relevant agencies to help the victim’s family deal with the aftermath of the tragedy.
The 24-year-old victim who was studying at a university in Tainan was reported missing by the school on Thursday morning.
Images captured with CCTV cameras showed her walking alone along a railroad overpass near the university at around 8 p.m. Wednesday before being reported missing.
Through CCTV footage, police found and arrested a suspect Thursday on suspicion that he had kidnapped the victim near the university.
The suspect later confessed that he had strangled the victim with a rope and dumped her body in the mountainous Alian district of neighboring Kaohsiung.
Based on his confession, the police were able to discover the body of the victim.
The suspect was arrested for voluntary manslaughter and sexual assault and the case is now in the hands of the Ciaotou District Prosecutor’s Office in Kaohsiung.
