Thread: British Woman beheaded in Supermarket

This story is just breaking, hopefully more details and pics to follow:

A British woman has been stabbed and decapitated in Tenerife, according to reports.
The woman was reportedly attacked in a supermarket in the town of Los Cristianos on the island.
A Bulgarian man, believed to be homeless, has been detained by Spanish police.
Spanish media reported that witnesses saw the man enter a Chinese supermarket at the Valdes Shopping Centre and, without saying a word, attacked the woman with a knife, cutting her head off.
A regional government spokeswoman said the killer is understood to have obtained a knife from inside the store to launch his attack.
Colin Kirby, of tenerifemagazine.com witnessed the event. He told Sky News: "It was all a bit surreal I was heading past the commercial centre and saw a group of people by the entrance and a medical guy going in form the health centre.
"I assumed someone had fainted, walked on, and then I could hear screaming and shouting.
"I glanced behind me and a guy was ambling down the street holding what I assumed to be a joke head, by the hair."
He said security guards gave chase to him, eventually managing to bring him down and restrain him.
"The guy did not seem completely right to me, he was a bit dishevelled, not particularly smart and as he was walking with the head he was muttering.
"It was a bizarre scene."
Manuel Reveron, a local a councillor for citizen security said: "Apparently this gentleman without any motive or any reason, although for this there is no reasoning, entered the shop and then cut this woman's neck and took the head in his hand outside up to the sidewalk.
"Then the security guard was able to throw him on the ground and we covered the macabre (site)."
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Tenerife and are urgently investigating."
Los Cristianos is home to many British ex-pats.
More to follow...

http://www.tenerifemagazine.com/news...cristianos.htm

Amazing.

more details:

A deranged knifeman decapitated a British woman in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife on Friday and fled with her head, police said.
The man, 28-year-old Bulgarian Deyan Valentinov launched his knife attack on the victim in a Chinese supermarket.
"The attack culminated with the decapitation of the victim," Canary Islands police said in a statement. "The attacker left the establishment with the head in his hand and then threw it to the pavement."
The victim was a 60-year-old British woman shopping in the supermarket in the tourist spot of Los Cristianos beach in Arona on the southern side of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, police said.
She had no relation to the attacker, they said.
Police said they arrested the man as he was struggling with a security guard and trying to escape.
"A man came running up with something full of blood in his hand and a private security guard behind him, and he threw it on the ground and it almost hit me," a witness named only as Bernardo told Cadena Ser radio.
"What he had in his hand was a head."
The attacker shouted out: "God is on Earth," according to local news site CanariasalDia.com, quoting Arona's mayor, Jose Alberto Gonzalez Reveron. He lived in a "semi-abandoned" house, the mayor said.
Canary Islands political representative Dominica Fernandez was quoted by the news site as saying that the killer was disturbed and had chosen his victim at random.
The man, who had a previous record for causing bodily injury, struck at 10:30 am (0830 GMT) in the supermarket, which forms part of the Valdes Centre shopping center of Arona, police said.
Other news reports said the man had been in a psychiatric hospital for breaking a man's teeth and had only been released in February but this could not immediately be confirmed.
In London, a Foreign Office official said it had been informed of the attack. "We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Tenerife and are urgently investigating," she said.
Tenerife is home to around one million residents and one of Spain's most popular tourist destinations.