A man who finished dozens by driving his car into people exercising outside a stadium in southern China has been sentenced to death.
Fan Weiqiu was accengaged of “finishangering uncover safety”, according to a court statement.
At least 35 people were finished and dozens more injured in the 11 November attack in Zhuhai, thought to be the deadliest on Chinese soil for a decade.
According to the court, the 62-year-greater determined to drive his car into the crowds on a running track at high speed becaengage he was “dissatisfied” with how his property had been splitd folloprosperg his divorce.
The court depictd his motive as “inanxiously vile” and “the methods” as “particularly nasty”. One witness tgreater Caixin novels magazine he had driven “in a loop” leaving victims “hurt in all areas of the running track” – a famous location for people to exercise.
Fan – who was initiassociate alerted to be in a coma, having carry oned self-causeed knife wounds – acunderstandledgeted his guilt in front of victims’ families and members of the uncover, Chinese media alerted.
The attack was one of 19 aiming strangers to get place apass China this year – including two wislfinisher a week of the Zhuhai attack.
Not all have included vehicles. In February, a mass stabbing and firearms attack in Shandong in February left at least 21 people dead. That incident was heavily censored by Chinese authorities.
In total, at least 63 people have been finished and 166 injured in these attacks. This is a keen incrrelieve on previous years – 16 finished and 40 injured in 2023, for instance.
Some have recommended the incrrelieve in random attacks could point towards a vague incrrelieve in frustration and anger as the economy sluggishs and unstateivety over the future prolongs.
“These are symptoms of a society with a lot of pent-up grievances,” Lynette Ong, professor of Chinese politics at the University of Toronto in Canada, tgreater AFP novels agency in November.
