 A four-year-old Taiwanese girl was beheaded by a man in Taipei’s Neihu district on Monday morning, local media reported. Television footage showed an angry crowd gathered outside a local police station, pushing and shoving in a bid to punch the bloodstained suspect when police tried to escort him out of the station to the police precinct. The man was overpowered by security in the metro station and was arrested at the scene, police said, adding that he claimed he "hates the police." I will never see her again, and she will never see her brother and sister again.” 
 
 The girl’s mother called on the government for measures to guarantee the nation’s working mothers’ peace of mind, saying: “The government said it is focusing on families and education, so how could this happen?” 
 
 The girl’s parents and grandparents were later seen kneeling next to her body, weeping. ‘Mentally unstable’ Taiwanese suspect who beheaded girl, 4, had history of violence: reports 
 
 When the suspect came close to her daughter, she thought he was going to help her ride up a hill, but what he did afterwards shocked and mortified her, the mother said. “Little Lantern (the girl’s nickname) said she wanted to pick up her brother and sister, but now she cannot see them any more,” said the mother, who was visibly trying to keep her composure. “I never thought this society was so dangerous,” the mother said, expressing the hope that her daughter would be the last victim of a random attack. It felt 'nice': What Taipei subway killer told police after stabbing spree 
 
 A witness who helped tackle the suspect told SET News that he and two colleagues rushed to the scene after they heard the mother crying for help. The girl’s grandmother tearfully told ETTV that she could not believe such a horrible thing had happened to her cute “Little Lantern”. The report claimed that the suspect told police during questioning that he had bought the kitchen knife at a store earlier in the morning and returned home.
– A nearly unthinkable killing unfolded on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, when a man beheaded a 4-year-old girl in full view of her mother. It appears to have been a random attack, and the 33-year-old suspect has a history of mental issues, reports the Taipei Times. The victim has been identified only by her surname, Liu, and by her nickname, "Little Lightbulb," or "Little Lantern." She and her mom were on their way to a subway station to meet her grandfather and two siblings for lunch when the attack occurred. The girl was on a bike ahead of her mother, and she was struggling to get up on the sidewalk when the man approached her. The girl's mother assumed he was going to help, but then he began attacking the girl with a cleaver. The mother and bystanders ran to the spot but were unable to pull him away in time. “I never thought this society was so dangerous,” said the girl's mother. "I will never see her again, and she will never see her brother and sister again.” Police arrested Wang Ching-yu, who had previously sought treatment for mental illness after fights with his family and has drug-related arrests on his record, reports AFP. His father describes the unemployed man as mentally unstable, reports the South China Morning Post. A mob of people confronted Wang as police were escorting him from a local precinct with shouts of "kill him," forcing officers to return him inside. In the wake of the attack, lawmakers promised to consider legislation ensuring the death penalty for those who kill children, or at least life in prison if mental illness is involved.