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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - crazy ah neh who thinks he is a Ninja!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kukulakaku <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>12:45 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 2) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>44146.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Samurai sword attack in German church
By Stuttgart, Germany
A man wielding a samurai sword stormed into a Protestant church in the southern German city of Stuttgart today and killed a woman in an attack that also left three other people seriously injured, including one whose hand was hacked off, police said.
About 65 members of the local Tamil community, about half of them children, were in the middle of a service when the 25-year-old man attacked, police investigator Michael Kuehner said.
He attacked and killed a 43-year-old woman, wounding others who got in his way, including another woman who suffered life-threatening injuries, and two men, one of whom lost a hand, Kuehner said.
A neighbour, who would not give her name, said she saw a woman covered in blood run screaming from the church and into the street before emergency crews reached her.
Police called to the scene subdued the man with pepper spray before arresting him.
The suspect, a Tamil from Stuttgart, was motivated by "personal reasons" in the attack, Kuehner said, adding that the man had made unspecified threats before Easter.
The man stormed into the church just before 4 pm, wildly waving a sword, before going on the rampage, according to witness reports, police spokeswoman Sybille Ahlborn said.
Tamils are a predominantly Hindu minority in Sri Lanka and southern India.
The group has regularly rented the Stuttgart church to hold its services.
- AP
<HR SIZE=1>Edited 2/3/2011 3:46 am ET by kukulakaku</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
By Stuttgart, Germany
About 65 members of the local Tamil community, about half of them children, were in the middle of a service when the 25-year-old man attacked, police investigator Michael Kuehner said.
He attacked and killed a 43-year-old woman, wounding others who got in his way, including another woman who suffered life-threatening injuries, and two men, one of whom lost a hand, Kuehner said.
A neighbour, who would not give her name, said she saw a woman covered in blood run screaming from the church and into the street before emergency crews reached her.
Police called to the scene subdued the man with pepper spray before arresting him.
The suspect, a Tamil from Stuttgart, was motivated by "personal reasons" in the attack, Kuehner said, adding that the man had made unspecified threats before Easter.
The man stormed into the church just before 4 pm, wildly waving a sword, before going on the rampage, according to witness reports, police spokeswoman Sybille Ahlborn said.
Tamils are a predominantly Hindu minority in Sri Lanka and southern India.
The group has regularly rented the Stuttgart church to hold its services.
- AP
<HR SIZE=1>Edited 2/3/2011 3:46 am ET by kukulakaku</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
