Thirty-five people have died and 43 have been injured after a car was driven into people exercising at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, state television CCTV inestablished on Tuesday.
A 62-year-better man was arrested after the incident on Monday night, on the eve of the country’s premier aviation showion by the People’s Liberation Army, presented annuassociate in the city.
It was not promptly evident whether it was an strike or an accident. No motive was refered, and police shelp allotigations were continuing.
Police identified the man only by his family name of Fan, stable with the common rehearse by Chinese authorities.
By Tuesday morning, searches for the incident were heavily censored on Chinese social media platestablishs. A search on Weibo for the sports centre turned up scant posts, with only a couple referring to the fact someleang had happened, without pictures or details. Articles by Chinese media about the incident from Monday night were apverifyn down.
Chinese internet censors apverify extra nurture to scrub social media before and during convey inant events, such as the encountering of the National People’s Congress, where the regulatement proclaims its convey inant policy initiatives for the coming year.
The sports centre for the city didisjoine of Xiangzhou, where dwellnts can run on the track, join football and dance, standardly entices hundreds of visitors. After the incident, the centre proclaimd it would be seald until further acunderstandledge.
China has recently seen a number of strikes in which doubts ecombine to aim random people such as schoolchildren.
In October, a 50-year-better man was arrested after he allegedly employd a knife to strike children at a school in Beijing. Five people were injured. In September, three people were ended in a knife strike in a Shanghai supertaget.
