When you go to church, leave your sword at home.

[The Dude]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4406821.stm

Carnage at German church service
The motive for the attack is not yet known

A man wielding a sword has killed one person and injured at least three more at a church in Germany, police say.

Officers said they found "grisly" scenes after the afternoon attack in the southern city of Stuttgart.

"Severed limbs were lying all round the church," a police spokeswoman said, adding that one man was arrested.

Details are still emerging, and the motive for the attack that took place in the middle of a service in the Protestant church is as yet unclear.

One woman is reported to be in a serious condition following the assault.

Counselling offered

Police spokesman Hermann Karpf said that the attack came as members of the local Tamil community were gathered in the church.

"The suspected perpetrator was arrested. He is believed to be a Tamil, and the service was also a Tamil service," Mr Karpf was quoted as saying.

Police used pepper spray to overpower the man, according to Germany's Spiegel.

About 40 people are believed to have been in the church, most of them thought to be members of the Tamil community who originally come from southern India and Sri Lanka.

Counselling has been offered to those who witnessed the attack.

Okay, I hear about the Tamils all the time on the radio, but I don't know exactly who they are, what they stand for, what their beef with the Sri Lankan government is or whatever.

Sounds like someone trying to reenact the chapel scene from Kill Bill

[Vercades]

Slaughtering an elderly woman...

[Nick Grana]

"Severed limbs were lying all round the church."
Counseling offered
That's nice.
Just goes to show you can be in any part of this great Earth and find enough crazy people willing to do just about anything. Just dumb, dumb, dumb.

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"

Just Google the Tamils. They have had their probs also.