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France shocked by double murder and beheading at psychiatric hospital

A savage double murder in the psychiatric wing of a French hospital, in which a nurse’s decapitated head was left on top of a television in the patients’ day room, stunned France and left hospital staff terrified of returning to work. Staff at the 460-bed Pyrenees Hospital Centre near the south-western town of Pau discovered the bodies of two nurses – both in their 40s, and mothers of young children – at 6.45am on Saturday, police said. One had been stabbed and slashed several times in the body, neck and throat, and was lying in a corridor in a pool of blood. The beheaded body of the second was lying at the foot of a fire door.Full Story