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Canadian Bus Passenger Beheaded by Seatmate

(Newser Summary) – A "totally calm" attacker stabbed and beheaded his seatmate on a bus in Canada, the Globe & Mail reports. In an apparently random act of violence, the man suddenly stood up and slashed his sleeping victim dozens of times with a hunting knife. Terrified passengers fled as the attacker cut off the young man's head and began disembowelling him. Passengers pushed against the door to prevent the attacker from leaving the bus.

Police arrested the 40-year-old man after a standoff of several hours. They praised quick thinking by passengers. "It's not something that happens regularly on a bus," a spokesman said. "The way they acted was extraordinary." The victim is believed to be a 22-year-old man from Winnepeg who had just texted his dad to ask if he could spend the night on his way home from an out-of-town job.
Sources: Globe and Mail, Associated Press

More about:  murder • Canada • stabbing • buses • beheading • decapitation • RCMP

An RCMP officer negotiates with a suspect in a Greyhound...
An RCMP officer negotiates with a suspect in a Greyhound bus near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada late Wednesday July 30, 2008.   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press,Boris Minkevich)
An RCMP crime scene investigator examines outside...
An RCMP crime scene investigator examines outside the bus where a man was stabbed and beheaed by another passenger, Thursday July 31, 2008 near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press, Ken Gigliotti)
Passengers board a Brandon Bus Lines charter bus for...
Passengers board a Brandon Bus Lines charter bus for Winnipeg at the Comfort Inn in Brandon, Man. on Thursday, July 31, 2008. The passengers are witnesses to a murder on a Greyhound bud.   (AP Photo/ Tim Smith, The Canadian Press)
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