Carlton Barber's Shop fire
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| Carlton Barber's Shop fire | |
|---|---|
| Location | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Date | May 12, 1993 |
| Target | Carlton Barber's Shop |
Attack type | Arson, mass murder |
| Deaths | 21 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 7 |
| Perpetrators | Liang Hsin-teng |
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 (Chinese: 卡爾登理容院), a massage parlor in Taipei, Taiwan on May 12, 1993. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Liang Hsin-teng (Chinese: 梁興登), 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.[1][2][3]