A man who witnesses said repeatedly stabbed and then beheaded a male in what was possibly a random attack on a Greyhound bus last night is in custody.
RCMP said the man was arrested without incident by an emergency response team early this morning.
Police have not identified the attacker or victim.
All lanes of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway remain closed west of Portage la Prairie as the RCMP investigated what they would only refer to as "a major incident" on the bus that was headed from Edmonton to Winnipeg.
The incident happened around 8:45 p.m. while the bus was in motion, about 20 km west of Portage. The driver then stopped the bus and horrified passengers ran out the front exit.
Garnet Caton, one of 37 passengers on the bus, said he witnessed the attack.
"We all heard this scream, this like blood-curdling scream," Caton told CBC Newsworld.
He said the suspect had a "large hunting knife" and repeatedly stabbed the victim "50 or 60 times."
"The attacker was calmy over top of the victim continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point," Caton told the CBC.
He said the victim appeared to be sleeping before the attack and the suspect was not acting out of the ordinary.
The bus was evacuated, but Caton said he was one of a handful of witnesses who saw the suspect trying to behead the body.
The suspect later appeared at the front of the bus, he said.
"He calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with (the victim's) head in his hand and the knife and then dropped the head in front of us," Caton said, adding he believes the suspect later returned to the back of the bus and was seen later "taunting police with the head in his hand out the window."
Caton said the suspect appeared calm.
"What struck me, it was like he was at the beach or something," he said.
A Sun Media reporter on the scene reported about three dozen people from the bus were standing outside the vehicle on the highway following the incident.
A female passenger said she heard screams and heard "there was a stabbing." "They told us to get off the bus," said the woman who did not provide her name.
Another woman at the scene said the passengers were being evacuated from one bus and loaded onto another waiting Greyhound bus.
At one point, Mounties surrounded the bus with one officer standing just a few feet away from an unidentified man sitting in the driver’s seat.
Abby Wambaugh, a spokeswoman for Greyhound Canada, said late Wednesday a management team would be waiting in Brandon to meet the passengers when they arrived "to take care of any needs they may have," including accommodation, transfers to other buses or even trauma counselling, if necessary.
With files from Canadian Press
4 comments:
That animal is obviously demon possessed. Get ready for a lot more like this happening as we near the end of days. As for the passengers, even though the victim was more than likely dead, some brave men should have stopped that guy from mutilating the corpse like he did. I wasn't there, but it seems like it was real cowardly to let him hack the guy's head off.
This guy had a real knife not no little box cutter like the one used to take over a american plane.
Here in canada we would of not let a person take over a vehicle with a box cutter it was a real knife.
From what I have heard, and this is speculation from another source, the guy being stabbed, before he was killed, yelled to everyone on the bus to get off there's a knife. Can you imagine what was going through these peoples' minds? What could they have done, hmm? This guy is clearly severely mentally unstable, who knows if he may have went after someone trying to stop the guy from being mulitalted. What would you have done if you had this scene in front of you and were in this situation? Would you have that kind of courage? Before you say that they should have went back and helped, think about that.
All I can say is that it happened - I found a report that actually mentioned what happened - In England the media practically blacked out this story - maybe not to worry people as the number of stabbing victims increase by the day - the reason why i posted the next post about 28 days later is because in Chinbrook there a large number of ex "Category A" prisoners living in close proximity - one of them was recently returned to prison for his part in the Machete Attack previously mentioned in one fo my posts. Hopefully they arent virulent & if they are I hope to God it isnt airborne.
Have a good day!!
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