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  • 11/6/2024
Taiwan's defense minister, Wellington Koo, has addressed an incident in which a new recruit, a conscript undertaking military service, removed a blank round from a shooting range without authorization and subsequently discharged it in a bathroom.
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00:00Taiwan's defense minister has addressed an incident where a new recruit fired a weapon
00:04outside of a shooting range. The recruit was a conscript doing their military service in
00:10northern Taiwan. They reportedly took a blank training round away from the shooting range
00:15instead of returning it as required. They later fired the round in a bathroom.

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