BEIJING: China on Monday executed a man who killed 35 people in a car rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai in the country’s deadliest mass attack in years.
Fan Weigiu, 62, deliberately drove a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex, also injuring 45 on Nov 11, last year.
He was sentenced to death last month, with a court saying his motives ‘were extremely vile, (and) the nature of the crime extremely egregious’.
State CCTV said a Zhuhai court ‘executed Fan Weigiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People’s Court’.
At his trial last month, Fan pleaded guilty, state media said.
The court found he ‘decided to vent his anger’ over ‘a broken marriage, personal frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the division of property after divorce’.
Also, CCTV reported a separate court in eastern Jiangsu province had carried out the death penalty on a man who killed eight people and wounded 17 in a mass stabbing in November.
Xu Jiajin, a 21-year-old former student who attacked a vocational school in the city of Wuxi, was executed ‘in accordance with the law’, CCTV reported.-Agencies