Brit Snaps, Kills Twelve

"CUMBRIA, UK - A trivial row over rivals stealing fares is believed to have sparked a taxi driver's horrific killing spree which left 13 dead yesterday.

"After a heated argument on Tuesday night, Derrick Bird is said to have stormed off saying: `There's going to be a rampage tomorrow.`

"Bird, 52, awoke next morning to commit the worst massacre in Britain since Dunblane in 1996.

"After shooting dead his twin brother, a solicitor and a taxi driver, he calmly unleashed carnage across the area to the west of the Lake District over the following three hours.

"With a shotgun and high-powered rifle pointing from the window of his Citroen Picasso taxi he went on a 20-mile terror drive, killing another nine at random before shooting himself.

"A further 25 were injured with eight still in hospital last night, three of them in a critical condition.

"The tiny Cumbrian police force was so overwhelmed that bodies were still lying in the streets seven hours after the killings."

Source: Daily Mail...