Crossing the prairies in Canada a man was decapitated by another passenger on a Greyhound bus Wednesday night as other passengers watched helplessly. The bus was on route to Winnipeg, Manitoba from Edmonton, Alberta.
As the other 37 shocked passengers watched the attacker repeatedly stabbed the man sitting beside him on the bus with a Rambo style survivalist knife.
The driver made an emergency stop allowing for the passengers to escape and trapping the attacker on the bus until authorities could arrive.
As passengers made their way to safety the attacker continued to stab the helpless victim in an eerily calm manner. When he had finished the man calmly walked to the front of the bus with the other man's head in his hand. According to fellow passenger
Garnet Caton in an interview with the CBC the attacker then dropped the head in front of the passengers standing on the other side of the blocked doorway.
The man was taken into custody on Wednesday night.
Caton and the bus driver barred the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving. Caton said that he, the driver and a truck driver briefly went back onto the bus to investigate what was happening.
Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has only said a major incident took place on the bus.
The victim according to other passengers appeared to be about 20 years old. He boarded the bus in
Edmonton. He had been listening to music on headphones when the attack took place.
It does not appear that the attacker knew his victim. He had been on the bus for about an hour when the attack happened. He had sat in the front of the bus to begin with and after a smoke break during a scheduled stop he moved to the back of the bus.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called it a "bizarre" and "horrific" incident, but did not discuss details of the attack, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.
"We want to make sure that the process is followed as aggressively as possible, a full legal process, and the perpetrator is definitely dealt with the full force of the law," he said.
The name of the attacker and the victim have not been released.
