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Date Posted: 20:55:39 05/08/03 Thu
Author: Grim
Author Host/IP: sun133480-1.gw.connect.com.au / 210.8.11.58
Subject: Man beheads himself in supermarket


A 31-year-old South African man walked into a supermarket, picked up a
power saw and decapitated himself in front of shocked shoppers, police said
yesterday.

The incident happened in the port town of Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal
north coast.

Eyewitnesses said the man had appeared calm as he marched up to the meat
counter, where he switched on a meat saw and placed his head under it.

Staff and shoppers had no time to react.

Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay
had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and headed for
the meat department.

"He just walked in, went to the bandsaw machine and switched it on,"
Naicker told Reuters.

"Apparently he knew what he was doing. He put his neck to the blade and it
cut about half way through before he fell to the floor."

Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was
pronounced dead at the scene.

He did not leave a suicide note and according to his family he was not
suffering from depression.

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