Young Girl Decapitated in Attack on Taiwan Street

A four-year-old girl was snatched from her bike by a knife-wielding man and beheaded in front of her mother on Monday in Taiwan's capital Taipei, according to police.

The mother and daughter were on their way to a metro station to meet family when the 33-year-old suspect, surnamed Wang, overwhelmed the mother and decapitated the child, reports local newspaper Taipei Times. Police have launched an investigation into the apparent random killing.