A policeman is seen through the broken windows of a train after an explosion at the Songshan train station in Taipei, Taiwan July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A suspected pipe bomb that injured 25 passengers on a train in Taiwan was a homemade explosive device and unlikely to be part of a terror-related plot, a police official said on Friday.
The explosion, decried on television by Premier Lin Chuan as appearing to be a deliberate "act of malice", happened just before the train entered a station in Taipei, the capital, late on Thursday.Television broadcast images of people with bandages on their burned limbs and faces being taken to hospital.
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