#Amok chops off head of girl, 4, in front of her mother. In #Taipei, #Taiwan.

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29 March 2016

Suspect who beheaded toddler speaking incomprehensibly. http://ebx.sh/1MOxS9m

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According to the police, Wang purchased the cleaver at a general wholesale market at around 8 a.m. then took the MRT to Xihu station. Wang was near Neihu Road Section 1 at around 10 a.m. where he happened on the toddler and her mother and started following them, cleaver in hand.

While in custody, his speech has reportedly been mainly incomprehensible, and has included repeated mumblings about “I’m out to find a girl from Sichuan” (a Chinese province). Wang has stated he did not have any past dealings with the victim. Police stated that Wang has a prior drug-use conviction.
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Wang, still visibly bloodstained from the alleged attack, was met by an emotionally charged crowd (shouting expletives and “kill him!”) while he was being escorted by police from Xihu police station to the Neihu Precinct station for further questioning. The suspect pleaded for mercy after being beaten by members of the crowd. For safety reasons, police took him back into the Xihu station.

President Ma Ying-jeou expressed “shock and sadness” on hearing about the attack, and asked the Cabinet to launch a full investigation “to ensure justice be served.”

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28 March 2016

Knife-wielding attacker chops off head of 4-year-old girl in Taipei

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Chew Hui Min

TAIPEI – A 33-year-old man was arrested in Taiwan on Monday (March 28) for allegedly chopping off the head of a four-year-old girl, reports said.

The suspect, who reportedly has a history of mental illness, attacked the young girl at a Taipei suburb on Monday at about 11am, Focus Taiwan said. The attack happened right in front of her mother.

Her grieving mother, Mrs Liu, told Apple Daily that she was about one metre away from her daughter, but could not stop the killer.

The girl was going upslope on a strider bike when the suspect approached her from behind. She and her mother were on their way to a train station to meet her grandfather and her younger siblings.

Thinking that the suspect was trying to help push her daughter up the slope, Mrs Liu did not attempt to stop him.

Instead, he pulled out a chopper and brought it down on the little girl’s neck, the newspaper said.

When she realised what was happening, Mrs Liu tried to hold the killer back, but was not strong enough to stop him. Passers-by then helped to subdue the attacker, but by then, he had decapitated the victim.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/knife-wielding-attacker-chops-off-head-of-4-year-old-girl-in-taipei

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