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Eyewitness Colin Kirby describes the aftermath of the attack in Tenerife
The Foreign Office is helping the family of a woman who was beheaded in a shop on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Spanish media said a 28-year-old homeless Bulgarian man had been arrested in the town of Los Cristianos.
Witnesses said a man entered a Chinese supermarket in a shopping centre and stabbed then beheaded the 62-year-old woman. He is said to have dropped the head outside before being tackled.
A local official said the man appeared to choose his victim at random.
Witnesses said the man entered the Chinese supermarket in Valdes Shopping Centre and attacked the woman without saying a word.
"Apparently this gentleman without any motive or any reason... entered the shop and then cut this woman's neck and took the head in his hand outside," said local councillor Manuel Reveron.
A security guard then managed to wrestle the man to the ground, he said.
"I parked my car and saw a man running out with something bloody in his hands and a security guard chasing him," one witness was quoted as telling local radio.
"He threw it to the ground, it almost hit me and what he had been carrying was a woman's head."
The Foreign Office is helping the family of a woman who was beheaded in a shop on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Spanish media said a 28-year-old homeless Bulgarian man had been arrested in the town of Los Cristianos.
Witnesses said a man entered a Chinese supermarket in a shopping centre and stabbed then beheaded the 62-year-old woman. He is said to have dropped the head outside before being tackled.
A local official said the man appeared to choose his victim at random.
Witnesses said the man entered the Chinese supermarket in Valdes Shopping Centre and attacked the woman without saying a word.
"Apparently this gentleman without any motive or any reason... entered the shop and then cut this woman's neck and took the head in his hand outside," said local councillor Manuel Reveron.
A security guard then managed to wrestle the man to the ground, he said.
"I parked my car and saw a man running out with something bloody in his hands and a security guard chasing him," one witness was quoted as telling local radio.
"He threw it to the ground, it almost hit me and what he had been carrying was a woman's head."
Terrible news to everyone who is involved with this woman and to those who witnessed it unfold before there eyes. Scary to think that there has people like this around. absolutely gruesome!
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