A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada's vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday.
The victim had been sleeping before he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by a man with a large knife, witness Garnet Caton told public broadcaster CBC.
The other 35 passengers and driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled. "He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.
When Caton and two others returned to check on the victim, he said they saw the attacker "cutting the guy's head off and gutting him."
"While we were watching ... he calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stared at us and dropped the head right in front of us."
Police then surrounded the bus and arrested the man, he said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they were investigating a "major incident" that occurred at 9 pm Wednesday (0200 GMT Thursday) on a Greyhound bus traveling eastbound from Edmonton to Winnipeg, but offered no details.
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OMG. What a terrible thing.
ReplyDeleteJoyce
I heard this on the news tonight and was just shocked. I was going to have my son take a bus to come visit me.....
ReplyDeleteLeigh
what a thing to happen...why or how did the other passengers not overpower the crazy man ? To flea the bus must have taken a few secs. and they must have passed the man ? seems incredible...Glad though I don't use the bus !!!
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some people totally over react to the gas prices ....ha.
ReplyDeleteokay, it really wasn't funny....quite disturbing.
Gruesome to the max. . . This sounds like an urban legend, but after last year when the people here in Peerlees Princess took photos with their cell phones and just stepped over a dying woman to enter the Quick Trip (the attacker in this incedent has just gone to trial) I'll believe anything's possible.
ReplyDelete>^P Jan the Gryphon
I agree, why didn't very one just jump the guy....
ReplyDeleteBut back seat driving I guess is a woman thing... LOL
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