Never a dull moment at Virginia Tech

A week old, but still .

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He 'cuts off her head' after quiet chat over coffee

THE attack with the kitchen knife was so savage that it left her head severed.

When the police arrived, murder suspect Zhu Haiyang was holding the decapitated head of victim Yang Xin in his hands, according a search warrant affidavit filed by the police.

'It was a horrific crime scene,' campus police chief Wendell Flinchum said of the attack. He said police found 'multiple edged weapons' in his backpack.

The murder took place on Wednesday night at Au Bon Pain cafe at the Graduate Life Center on the Virginia Tech campus.

This is the same campus that saw 32 people gunned down in 2007 by Korean student Cho Seung Hui who later shot himself.

Zhu, 25, is a PhD student in agricultural and applied economics there and Miss Yang, 22, who only arrived two weeks ago, was doing her Masters in accounting. Both are China nationals.

According to witnesses, Zhu and Miss Yang were seemingly doing nothing more than enjoying a quiet conversation and a cup of coffee together at a campus cafe when he abruptly pulled out a knife and attacked her, reported AFP.

Interviews with the seven witnesses, Capt Flinchum said, suggested Miss Yang and Zhu were not arguing before the knife came out.

Asked whether Zhu, who is from Ningbo in eastern China, said or yelled anything as he held the knife, Capt Flinchum declined to answer, saying investigators are withholding some information.

Miss Yang died near the table where she was attacked.

Capt Flinchum said Zhu had previously never been reported to campus police for any violations of the law.

Later that night, officials notified Miss Yang's mother in China of her death.

Miss Yang, from Beijing, had been a student at Virginia Tech for only 13 days, reported AP. But she had trusted Zhu enough to list him as an emergency contact on university documents.

So far, there there is no apparent motive for the attack.

But an unverified Chinese language blog posting written earlier this month under the name Haiyang Zhu, and displaying the same photo of Zhu given by Virginia authorities, provides a clue.

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