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"When we came back on the bus he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up. He calmly walks up to the front of the bus with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us. There was no rage in him. It was just like he was a robot or something."
Garnet Caton
Caton, a witness to the beheading which took place on a Greyhound bus in Canada.

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