China has executed a man who killed 35 people by plowing his car into crowds at a sports center in November, in the country’s deadliest known attack against the public in a decade, state media reported Monday.
Fan Weiqiu, 62, and Xu Jiajin, 21, were convicted of carrying out deadly public attacks that investigators attributed to personal problems.
China has executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called "revenge on society crimes," state media said.
China has executed the man who killed 35 people by driving his car into a crowd at a sports center in November, marking the deadliest public attack in the country in a decade, CNN reported, citing state media reports on Monday.
China has executed Fan Weiqiu, a 62-year-old man convicted of killing at least 35 people in a car attack last November
China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade. Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising outside a stadium in the southern city of Zhuhai.
The number of such attacks across China reached 19 in 2024. Within days of the Zhuhai and Wuxi attacks, a man drove into a crowd of children and parents outside a primary school, injuring 30.
Police are checking on safety at schools and visiting karaoke bars and rental homes to root out perceived malcontents, after several mass killings alarmed the public.
China has executed Fan Weiqiu for driving into a crowd, killing 35, in Zhuhai last November. This attack marked China's deadliest public incident in a decade. President Xi Jinping called the act 'extremely vicious'.
China on Monday executed a man who killed 35 people in a car rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai in November, in the country's deadliest mass attack in years.
China has executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called “revenge on society crimes.”
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