"the killer run out of the store carrying the victim's head, before being tackled by security "

A British woman was murdered in Tenerife today, the Foreign Office said.

Spanish authorities said the woman was beheaded in a supermarket, according to the Associated Press.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing the killer run out of the store in Los Cristianos carrying the victim's head, before being tackled by security guards.

Sources said the woman, in her 60s, was "stabbed and decapitated".

The suspect is believed to be a homeless Bulgarian man with a police record.

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