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Four year old girl beheaded in Taiwan knife attack.
A 4-year-old girl was beheaded in Taiwan in what appears to have been a random knife attack, state media said.
On Monday morning, a 33-year-old man attacked the girl with a cleaver in full view of her mother as they were on their way to a metro station in Taipei, the island's capital, the official Central News Agency, or CNA, said.
The mother of the slain child said her daughter had been riding her bike about a meter away from her when it became stuck.
She saw the man approaching and at first thought he was going to help her daughter but he drew his knife and decapitated her.
"At first I thought he was going to lift up the bike to help my daughter. When I walked over to tell him that it's OK, I saw both of them fall on the ground, and the suspect was wielding the knife and cutting my daughter," she said.
"I saw the suspect slashing my daughter with a cleaver. I immediately grabbed him but I could not pull him away."
Bystanders heard her screams for help and rushed to restrain the attacker until police arrived.
"I'm devastated, because I will never see her again, and she'll never see her siblings again," the mother said.
She told reporters she hopes her daughter's death will prompt important discussions and "make people pay more attention to love."
An initial investigation found that the suspect, identified only by his surname Wang, waited near the metro station after allegedly buying the knife at a supermarket earlier that day.
Citing police, CNA said the man had a history of mental illness and had received treatment at a psychiatric hospital.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/28/asia/...b_mobile_article_readmore_pool&iref=obnetwork