A passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated another person aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through Manitoba overnight, a witness said Thursday.
Police officers were examining the Greyhound bus after a man repeatedly stabbed another passenger. (CBC)Police would not confirm the reports, only saying that a "major incident" took place around 9 p.m. Wednesday evening in the bus as it drove along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Portage la Prairie.
But passenger Garnet Caton told CBC News Thursday morning that the attacker had been sitting beside the victim, who was sleeping with his headphones on. Suddenly, he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and saw the man holding a large survival knife above the victim, "continually stabbing him in the chest area," he said.
"He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.
Panicked passengers fled the bus, but when Caton and two others returned to see if the victim was still alive, they saw the attacker "cutting the guy's head off and gutting him up."
"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," said Caton.
Officers were still at the scene early Thursday morning and brought portable search lights to examine the bus, CBC's Sean Kavanagh reported.
Yellow tape surrounded the bus, which was carrying 37 passengers and a driver from Edmonton to Winnipeg, according to Abby Wambaugh, media relations spokeswoman for Greyhound Canada.
The incident took place in the eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada about 18 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, a city about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
Traffic was being rerouted to a side road and passengers were brought to a hotel in Brandon for the night.
Wambaugh would not comment on what happened on the bus.
"I don't want to compromise the investigation, so any details need to be confirmed by the police," she said.
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