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Three-year-old girl decapitated outside subway station.

 

A three-year-old girl riding her bicycle a short distance in front of her mother outside a subway train station has been decapitated.

The horrific attack took place shortly before noon yesterday in Taiwan.

According to Taiwanese media a 33-year-old man has been arrested following the attack and remanded in custody.

The little girl was riding her bike in front of her mother when the man approached in what is said to be a “random” attack.

The mother said she initially thought he was going to help her ride up the hill, but istead he pulled out a meat cleaver and attacked the girl leaving her helpless mother watching on.

The mother told Taiwanese newspaper Apple Daily she tried to stop the killer, but was not strong enough to overpower him.

Local media said the man was tackled by passers-by.

The government-run Central News Agency said the man, named only as Wang, had an arrest record for drug crimes and had been treated for mental illness.

The Daily Mail reports that the victim was the second oldest of four children and had the nicknamed ‘Little Lightbulb’ by her parents.

She has a nine-year-old sister and a younger brother and sister who are two-year-old twins.