School shootings were yesterday....

[BeBMan]

...school beheadings are the new trend:

Chinese student decapitated at Virginia Tech

Posted Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:00am AEDT

A female Chinese graduate student has been decapitated by a fellow student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the worst school shooting in US history in 2007, police said.

At approximately 7:00pm Wednesday (local time), Xin Yang, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, was killed at an Au Bon Pain cafe on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, university officials said.

They added that emergency contact records suggest that Yang and the student charged with her murder, Haiyang Zhu from Ningbo, from China, knew each other.

According to officials, witnesses said Zhu, 25, attacked Yang with a knife.

"There were seven witnesses in the cafe. There had been no argument, no shouting" when the young woman was attacked, said Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski, confirming that Yang had been decapitated.

"This is horrible and tragic. Especially when we know that Virginia Tech has got its share of hardship and horror."

In April 2007, Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student born in South Korea, shot 32 fellow classmates and teachers to death before killing himself.

"The tragic attack on campus this week has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family," Virginia Governor Tim Kaine said in a statement offering his condolences.

Zhu was charged with first-degree murder and was being held at a county jail. He had not had a record with university or local police, the school indicated.

Yang had arrived at Virginia Tech in early January to begin studies in accounting. Zhu was a PhD graduate student in agriculture and applied economics.

- AFP

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/23/2472870.htm

[Lorizael]

Dude, what's with Asians?

[Patroklos]

So seven people just stood around and watched this happen? Nobody thought to bludgean the dude to a bloody pulp with a chair? Beyond the decapitation, that is horrific in its own right.

[Supr49er]

So seven people just stood around and watched this happen? Nobody thought to bludgean the dude to a bloody pulp with a chair? Beyond the decapitation, that is horrific in its own right.

Exactly. A knife would take some time to decapitate.

[Riesstiu IV]

Dude, what's with Asians?

More specifically, what is wrong with Asian students at Virginia Tech?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Xin Yang's head was cut off with a kitchen knife

that takes some skill and effort... surely beats killing xyz people with a handgun

[Patroklos]

Exactly. A knife would take some time to decapitate.

Exactly, and we are not talking about a K-bar here. Honestly, WTF is wrong with people today? Decapitating people, standing by while people are decapitated...

[BeBMan]

In other news in Belgium a man with his face painted in black and white color ran amok at a kindergarten and killed two children, one adult:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7846815.stm

[BlackCat]

Belgians learn quickly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7846815.stm

Infants stabbed at Belgian creche

Two infants and an adult have been killed and 10 other people wounded in a knife attack at a creche in north-western Belgium.

A man reportedly tricked his way into the nursery in Dendermonde where he ran amok inside before escaping. He was later captured at a local supermarket.

The suspect apparently had painted his face black and white.

Parents have begun the harrowing task of identifying children stabbed during the attack at local hospitals.


There was blood everywhere, it was unbelievable, real carnage
Theo Janssens
Deputy mayor

Three children are reported to be in a serious condition in hospital.

One of those who died is believed to be a nursery employee and Dendermonde's deputy mayor, Theo Janssens, said several adults had been injured as they tried to put themselves between the attacker and the children.

"The guy just went crazy," Mr Janssens said. "There was blood everywhere, it was unbelievable, real carnage."

The creche has been evacuated and local authorities have put a disaster plan in place.

Town 'in shock'

Nursery staff told journalists that the attacker, believed to be in his thirties, was not known to them.


Emergency workers outside the creche in Dendermonde, Belgium

In pictures: Belgian stabbing
Officials said he had rung the doorbell at the Fabeltjesland (English: Storyland) nursery at 1000 local time (0900 GMT) and told staff he needed some information.

When they opened the door, he ran in and began attacking three of the infants.

"He quickly pulled out a knife and started using it on the children," said local prosecutor Christian Du Four.

"He then went up to another floor and started doing the same thing again."

The prosecutor said the man's face had been smeared with a white colouring but his eyes had been blackened.

He escaped from the scene by bicycle but was arrested at a supermarket

Residents told the BBC that the town was stunned.

Damien Vernon, a 43-year-old from Ireland who has lived in Dendermonde for five years, said: "It's just a sad day here, we're a small town and the crime figures are low here, we're just in shock."

Photographs

The creche looks after 18 children under the age of three.

Belgium map

Police have been showing parents digital photographs of the youngsters taken to hospital, asking them to identify their children.

Interior Minister Guido De Padt told a press conference he was "horrified by the events".

"Our thoughts go out to the families and staff of the creche," he said. "Many parents are in a state of shock."

The children and staff from the nursery who escaped without injury are now receiving counselling.

Flemish TV station VTM had initially reported three children and two adults had died but the interior ministry later gave the lower casualty figures.

Dammit Bebro - if you had copied the text I would have been first

[BeBMan]

Hey!

[DinoDoc]

So seven people just stood around and watched this happen? Nobody thought to bludgean the dude to a bloody pulp with a chair? Beyond the decapitation, that is horrific in its own right.

Cowardice?

[Patroklos]

One of those who died is believed to be a nursery employee and Dendermonde's deputy mayor, Theo Janssens, said several adults had been injured as they tried to put themselves between the attacker and the children.

Belgian sense of citizenship

[OneFootInTheGrave]

and rationalization... I can bet most were thinking this was some new gruesome reality tv show, or something in that order...

Happy Trigger in UK was good, when they get masked people beating each other in London streets full of people and passers by just circling around... it's the modern world, people actually caring for those around them are increasingly rare.

[DinoDoc]

and rationalization... I can bet most were thinking this was some new gruesome reality tv show, or something in that order...

You say rationalization but it really sounds like you meant to say stupidity.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

well you can call it that way, but it probably comes through some sort of "it cannot be real, when did someone actually decapitate another person in the US? this must be some sort of xyz... "