Canadian beheading victim's family asks to grieve in peace

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MONTREAL (AFP) — The family of a 22-year-old Canadian man who was beheaded by a fellow passenger inside a bus spoke for the first time, urging the media and public to let them grieve in private.

"We are requesting the media and the public for privacy," the victim's uncle, Alex McLean, said Saturday. "We'd like to have time to grieve."

The police has not confirmed the victim's name, but his family says he was Tim McLean, who was returning home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in Edmonton.

He was killed on Wednesday while riding a bus by another passenger who stabbed him 50 times and then cut his head off with a huge knife, and gutted him, a crime that shocked the country and drew wide media coverage.

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