China executes 62-year-old Fan Weiqiu who killed 35 people in Zhuhai car attack
Announcing the verdict, the court termed his motive ‘extremely vile’ and ‘the methods’ used by him ‘particularly cruel’.
The Chinese authorities executed a 62-year-old man, Fan Weiqiu, a month after a court sentenced him to death for driving car into people exercising outside a stadium last year, killing 35 people and injuring over 40, reported PTI.
Weiqiu had stated to be angry over the division of the property after his divorce, carried out the attack a day before the Chinese military held its prestigious air show in Zhuhai City.
Following his arrest, the Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court held a public trial of Fan for the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means in accordance with the law, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Announcing the verdict, the court termed his motive "extremely vile" and "the methods" used by him "particularly cruel".
The Asian country has been grappling with a spate of public violence of late. The report added that the incidents are routinely blamed on disgruntled elements by security officials.
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In another incident, officials on Monday executed Xu Jiajin, a man convicted of killing eight people and injuring 17 in a knife attack at a vocational school in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The death penalty of Xu was executed by the Intermediate People's Court in the city of Wuxi, Jiangsu, after the Supreme People's Court approved the death sentence, Xinhua news agency reported.
The death sentence was handed down by the Wuxi court in December 2024, said the report.
Earlier on November 2024, the attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology. Xu was caught at the scene and confessed to his crime, according to a police statement at the time.
Earlier in July 2024, eight people were killed and five others injured after a vehicle crashed into pedestrians in Changsha City, the capital of central China's Hunan province.
With agency inputs.
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First Published:20 Jan 2025, 02:34 PM IST
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