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Man beheads British woman in Spanish supermarket


    MADRID (Reuters) - A British woman visiting a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife was decapitated Friday by a man who then ran out of the store holding her head, the local emergency services said.

    The mayor of the town of Arona, quoted by Spanish media, said the MAN (MAN.XE) who was arrested as he tried to escape, was a 28-year-old Bulgarian with a history of mental illness.

    Media reports described the victim as a British woman in her 60s who had no known relationship with her attacker.

    (editing by David Stamp)