Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Manitoba
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This is some shocking and horrific news I found important to share with everyone. At this time we’re not sure whether the attack was racially motivated.
A passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through Manitoba overnight in what appears to be a random attack, witnesses told CBC News.
Police officers spent the night examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday.Police officers spent the night examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday. (John Woods/Canadian Press)The RCMP would not confirm the reports of beheading, saying only that a stabbing took place around 8:30 p.m. CT on an eastbound Greyhound bus on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, Man.
A 40-year-old man believed to be from outside Manitoba was arrested early Thursday morning and remains in RCMP custody. Charges have not yet been laid, and the suspect has not yet been interviewed, said RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Steve Colwell, adding that he could release no further information on the investigation.
RCMP declined to identify either the suspect or the victim.
Thirty-seven passengers and a driver were aboard the bus en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.
Passenger Cody Olmstead, 21, told CBC News he had smoked a cigarette earlier in the trip with the victim, whom he described as a man in his late teens or early 20s. The victim got on the bus in Edmonton, he said.
“I never took the time to know him, but he seemed to be OK, right, just a kid,” said Olmstead, a Nova Scotia man who had been taking the bus from Alberta to Montreal.
“He just said he was going to Winnipeg … going home, that’s where he was from.”
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