Man decapitates passenger on bus

Updated 16.04 Thu Jul 31 2008

Keywords: decapitation, Canada, bus

A man travelling across Canada on a bus decapitated the man sitting next to him then showed fellow passengers the severed head.

The victim was asleep on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies on Wednesday night, witnesses said.

"He calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us" - Garnet Caton

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," said Garnet Caton, who was sitting just in front of the victim.

He added: "The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife - a survival, Rambo knife - holding the guy and continually stabbing him, stabbing him, stabbing him in the chest area."

The attack continued as other passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolated stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

They barred the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving.

Mr Caton said: "He calmly walks up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us.

"There was no rage in him. It was just like he was a robot or something."

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are understood to have taken the attacker into custody.