A British woman was murdered this morning in what appeared to be a random attack in a major holiday resort in Tenerife.
Spanish media said a 28-year-old vagrant from Bulgaria had been arrested following the murder in Los Cristianos, a resort popular with UK holidaymakers.
According to eyewitness reports, the 62-year-old woman was shopping in a Chinese supermarket in the town’s Valdes Shopping Centre when the man walked in, picked up a knife and, without speaking, stabbed her several times in the neck, then decapitated her.
He later fled from the shop holding the woman’s head but a security guard and by-standers, including a man on a moped, gave chase across a highway and he was knocked to the ground and restrained.
Spanish media quoted police sources saying that the suspect, who had recently been released from a pyschiatric unit, had a police record and he was well-known in the area.
The woman has not been named.
By Linsey McNeill
