▲Shoufeng Township, Hualien, was shocked to hear that a man died in the room early in the morning on the 2nd. At present, the police initially suspected that it was caused by inhaling laughing gas. (Data picture/Photo by Guo Shixian)
Xu Kaixin/Hualien report
Shoufeng Township, Hualien, was shocked to hear that a man was violently killed in the room on the early morning of the 2nd. The police found two cylinders of unknown gas after investigating the scene. They are currently suspected of inhaling laughter. He died violently and sent the cylinder to Taipei for inspection on the afternoon of the 3rd. It is understood that there are no signs of fighting in the room of the deceased, and the detailed cause of death still needs to be examined by the Hualien District Prosecutor's Office.
Hualien Ji'an Branch received a notice from the public at 7:30 on the 2nd that there was a death case in Toyota's jurisdiction. It is understood that the deceased was a 23-year-old man surnamed He. He went to a friend’s house overnight on the 1st and stopped going out. The informant said that he was unconscious when he entered the room and he immediately called the police and sent him to the hospital for treatment, but he was rescued. Still pronounced dead. The police found two unidentified gas cylinders in the deceased’s room with hoses connected to them. It is initially suspected that the contents were nitrous oxide. They were sent to Taipei for identification on the 3rd.
Police said that long-term use of nitrous oxide will not only cause vomiting and diarrhea, pulling blood, hair loss, but also hemoptysis, peripheral nerve and spinal cord lesions, and various blood diseases, which affect intelligence and organ function, and it may be serious. Hypoxia is fatal. The chemical name of
laughing gas is nitrous oxide, which has medical and industrial uses, and many young people will smoke it to help. The police reminded the public that if you illegally sell nitrous oxide for medical use, you can be transferred to the law in accordance with the "Pharmacist Law", which can be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of up to 7 years; while smoking industrial laughing gas can be punished for 3 days in accordance with the Law on the Maintenance of Social Order Following detention.
