A passenger travelling on a bus across Canada's vast Western plains has stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack.
The victim had been sleeping before he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by a man with a large knife, a witness report.
The other 35 passengers and driver were jolted by what they described as ‘blood-curdling screams’ and fled.
When witness Garnet 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.’
He said that while they were watching, the attacker calmly walked up to the front of the bus with the head in his hand and dropped the head in front of the passengers.
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 yesterday on a Greyhound bus travelling eastbound from Edmonton to Winnipeg, but offered no details.
