Stolen samurai-wielding swordsman targets Taiwan Presidential Office

This photograph by Taiwan agency CNA Photo taken on August 18, 2017 shows a Japanese samurai sword with Chinese script that reads "killed 107 people during the war in Nanjing, (China)", and used August 18 by an attacker that slashed a military police guard at the Presidential Palace, at a local police station in Taipei. A samurai sword-wielding attacker carrying the national flag of China slashed a military police guard outside Taiwan's presidential office, authorities said. / AFP

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A man wielding a stolen samurai sword tried to break into Taiwan's presidential palace on Friday and wounded a military policeman who stopped him, the Presidential Office said.

The man stabbed the policeman in the shoulder, media reported. The attacker was taken into custody for questioning. The officer was in stable condition in hospital.