A 28-year-old unemployed Bulgarian man attacked a 60-year-old British woman with a knife in an Arona, Tenerife supermarket...and fled carrying her severed head.
Witnesses reported that the guy walked in, pulled a big knife and started stabbing an unnamed woman.
One witness said :"It made me think of Clash of The Titans, gorgons. I thought … it's a joke'. The man was in his late 20s … He was a bit disheveled, unwashed, he was wearing a jumper and trousers, when everyone else is wearing shorts. Even at 10.30 in the morning, it's boiling."
Security guards and others chased after him.
There is a large British ex-pat community in nearby Los Cristianos.