DHAKA: A worker who had recently tried to convert colleagues to Islam beheaded one of them in a knife rampage after being dismissed from his job in Oklahoma State, Aljazeera reports.

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alton Nolen, attacked another colleague with the knife before being shot by the Oklahoma food-distribution firm's head - who was hailed a hero by police.

Nolen, who survived and was in hospital in a stable condition, appeared to have chosen his victims at random, police said of Thursday's incident, and there was no immediate indication of a link with terrorism.

"Nolen went to the parking lot, then drove his vehicle to the front of the business ... he then entered the main entrance," Jeremy Lewis, police spokesman, said in the city of Moore on Friday.

BDST: 1058 HRS, SEP 27, 2014