What the records say
- When
- 1993
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 21
- Coordinates
- 25.04° N, 121.56° E
- Description
- mass murder in Taipei, Taiwan on May 12, 1993
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Carlton Barber's Shop fire
1993 mass murder in Taipei, Taiwan
The Carlton Barber's Shop fire was an act of mass murder that killed twenty people and injured seven others in the Carlton Barber's Shop, a massage parlor in Taipei, Taiwan on May 12, 1993. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Liang Hsin-teng, had an argument with the shop's owner. He set himself on fire and the blaze spread to the other levels of the shop and killed most of the victims by asphyxiation.
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