Toddler killed in gruesome knife attack in Taipei

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/03/28
By: Yiu Kai-hsiang and Jay Chen

Taipei, March 28 (CNA) A 3-year-old girl was decapitated in an apparent random attack in

Reporters wait to be briefed on the crime outside a police station in Neihu, Taipei, Monday.

Reporters wait to be briefed on the crime outside a police station in Neihu, Taipei, Monday.

Taipei Monday in full view of her mother, police said.

A man said to be in his forties has been detained in connection to the gruesome killing.

The attack occurred late Monday morning when the girl, whose name has not been revealed, and her mother were on their way to a local metro station in northern Taipei’s Neihu District.29073219

Local TV footage showed the decapitated body covered in white cloth on a sidewalk near the child’s strider bike.

A bloodstained kitchen knife was found near the crime scene.      [SOURCE]

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