(Adnkronos) – Chinese authorities have executed a man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern city of Zhuhai in November. State broadcaster Cctv reported that a court had carried out the death sentence handed down to ”Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People’s Court”. On 11 November last year, 62-year-old Fan deliberately drove a small SUV into a crowd of people exercising outside a sports complex. In what was the deadliest attack in China since 2014, Fan killed 35 people and injured 43.
Fan was sentenced to death last month and a court said his motives “were extremely vile, the nature of the crime extremely atrocious, the methods particularly cruel and the consequences particularly serious, causing significant harm to society’.
