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Image shows: The arrested assailant Source / copyright UNKNOWN > TAIPEI - A 33-year-old man was arrested in Taiwan on Monday (March 28) for allegedly chopping off the head of a four-year-old girl, reports said. The suspect, who reportedly has a history of mental illness, attacked the young girl at a Taipei suburb on Monday at about 11am, Focus Taiwan said. The attack happened right in front of her mother. Her grieving mother, Mrs Liu, told Apple Daily that she was about one metre away from her daughter, but could not stop the killer. The girl was going upslope on a strider bike when the suspect approached her from behind. She and her mother were on their way to a train station to meet her grandfather and her younger siblings. Thinking that the suspect was trying to help push her daughter up the slope, Mrs Liu did not attempt to stop him. Instead, he pulled out a chopper and brought it down on the little girl's neck, the newspaper said. When she realised what was happening, Mrs Liu tried to hold the killer back, but was not strong enough to stop him. Passers-by then helped to subdue the attacker, but by then, he had decapitated the victim. A blood-stained chopper was found near the crime scene, said Focus Taiwan. "I could not believe it. How can something so cruel happen?" the girl's grandmother sobbed as she told TVBS in Mandarin. The victim, nicknamed "Little Lightbulb", is the second of four children in her family. Her father works in the IT industry, and her mother is a housewife. She has a nine-year-old sister and a younger brother and sister who are two-year-old twins. A photo of the suspect, his face splattered with blood as he was brought in by the police, was published by Taiwanese media. The suspect, surnamed Wang, is said to be unemployed, and has a history of mental illness and drug offences. The case has shocked Taiwanese.201603280022t0001.jpg

Toddler beheaded in ‘random’ attack

WARNING: Disturbing. A man has been arrested over the “random” public beheading of a three-year-old toddler outside a train station.

Europe

Summer Grant, seven, died when a bouncy castle she was playing on was blown more than 135 metres into the sky. Picture: Facebook

‘Life is just truly cruel’

THE parents of a young girl killed when a jumping castle was blown more than 150m by a gust of wind pay tribute to their “beautiful” daughter.

News Life

Ana Saito was kidnapped back in 2014. She has escaped suspected kidnapper Kabu Terauchi in Tokyo on Monday March 28, 2016. Picture: Asaka Police Department

How teen escaped two-year kidnap hell

A TEEN was on her way home from school when she was abducted. She was kept in a flat for two years until her captor made one simple mistake.

Europe

‘A Muslim is not a terrorist’

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True stories

Sketch of Woodlawn Jane Doe by forensic artist - cold case Maryland murder. Picture: Baltimore County Police Department

Breakthrough in 40yo whodunnit

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Inventions

North Korea ‘will lay waste to Washington’

HERE we go again. North Korea has threatened to unleash a nuclear missile on the United States in a menacing propaganda video.

Celebrities gone bad

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 19: Lindsay Lohan attends the Gareth Pugh show during London Fashion Week SS16 on September 19, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Something to hide, Lindsay?

REFORMED bad girl Lindsay Lohan has posted a picture of herself with a bag on her head. But why?

Politics

Senator Jacqui Lambie's Australia Day message. Picture: SUPPLIED

We’re gonna see a lot more of Lambie

THE next PM better get used to negotiating with Jacqui Lambie. Along with two other Senators, she could play a key role in the next government.

Europe

Said Kouachi (L) and Cherif and who authorities said carried out an attack at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.

Why do brothers turn to terror?

THE strongest bond was behind the Brussels bombing. It also has links to other recent attacks. And it’s a bond that can’t be broken.

Technology

Facebook beheading threat fail

AFTER his Middle Eastern friend was racially abused, a man took to Facebook to find the culprit. But his threat of beheading was sent to the wrong person.

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